60s evening wear

These amazing vintage evening dresses were as glittery as they were form-fitting. But there's more to the story beyond gorgeous models and stunning gowns.

Yes, as a dedicated blogger I do track how people find my site - which search words they use, for example (and trust me, some are pretty strange). And believe it or not, searches having to do with jumpsuits (70s jumpsuits, women's jumpsuits, formal jumpsuits, etc.) pop up on a regular basis. Why the interest in this fashion oddity? Well, they just bespeak 70s fashion coolness in a way nothing else does! Why wait so long for another post on this groovy 70s fashion? Well, one problem that I…

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The 1960s usually bring up memories of swinging hippies or mod dancers in go go boots. While they certainly took fashion by storm during the day, 1960s evening dresses were a different story. In the early 1960s (1960-1965), party dresses and formalwear emulated the designs of the 1950s. Tea length or knee length puffy swing

Modeling an evening dress by Carven at Taillevent, Paris, 1960. Photo: Philippe Pottier.

Some of the things about 60s clothing tend to catch my eye when trawling through Pinterest or Tumblr. Certain elements that you begin to notice as integral parts to the look that was being worn by the Dolly Birds and Dandies of the time In this set of blog posts, I want to explore the different elements of clothing that we often associate with or were popular in the 60s I'll try to explain the construction of these elements and show some examples of these styles There are many features that…

Sondra Peterson wearing Lanvin Castillo -Vogue September 1962

In celebration of what would have been his 112th birthday, we chronicle a list of obscure facts about the illustrious fashion legend

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Bold, Beautiful and Young - The London Look may have typified the mod Sixties, but now at the tail of the decade, it is America once again, on the wing of the hippy revolution, where