Fashion in Crisis

I feel like I jumped the gun on writing a "Things I'm Learning in School" post because so many interesting and funny gems of knowledge came out this week when we discussed fashion of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In a nutshell, everything went crazy in the 60s and it has never been the same. Folks, we live in a post-modern fashion world.

Here are a few quotes I want to share:

"In the 1950s, ten-year olds only wore jeans as play clothes. When those kids were twenty, they were still in their play clothes, still wearing their jeans. Baby boomers will probably be buried in their jeans. They didn't want to grow up because growing up for their parents meant suffering through the depression and fighting a war."

"Anti-fashion is about expressing an ideology. Fashion is aesthetic--it doesn't have to mean anything. But anti-fashion is a statement."

"The hippies wanted everything to be natural. They only synthetic they were interested in was hallucinogenic drugs."