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High School Fashion, 1969

What a trip.

Wow these photos are stunning

Some of these outfits are the raddest things I’ve ever seen.

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knitmeapony

Can we talk about the tights.

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emmagrant01

The existence of photos like these (and similar photos from the 70s and 80s and so on) makes me wonder yet again why current-day movies set in this time never seem to be able to get the hair and clothing right.

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imaginaryopal

I thought these were photos from like Coachella or something

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mimicofmodes

They can’t get the hair and clothes right because it’s a common belief in the movie/tv industry that audiences will find anything that doesn’t fit our current beauty standards unwatchable. (It’s strange, because I can’t think of anything that goes the extra mile to be accurate that’s been run down in reviews for being ugly. This isn’t like the myth that people won’t watch a show after the leads get together because it happened with Moonlighting - it’s just accepted as true. Mad Men in particular featured a ton of hideous, accurate costuming by the end, and didn’t suffer for it afaik) The costume designers know that women’s hair should be unlayered and unstyled for this look, and that dresses don’t need to emphasize the waist, but the producers generally oppose this and think all the actors need to be “hot”.

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nonasuch

I really like the range of styles and trends you can see here, because it includes a lot of stuff that people don’t generally think of as ‘60s style’ or ‘70s style’ automatically, or that they might assume wouldn’t be worn by high-schoolers at the time. 

In particular:

  • there’s a really broad range in terms of how much skin girls are showing and how casual or ‘sexy’ their outfits read to modern eyes. Lots of short shorts and minidresses, but also plenty of girls in wide-legged pants and long sleeves, or combos like the girl in shorts, tall red socks, and a loose vest over a collared shirt in the first picture.
  • the white minidress/bright patterned tights combo is a Great Look and I would like us to bring that back
  • some things are clearly the result of short-lived trends that didn’t make it into the modern conceptualization of late 60s/early 70s fashion – all the long layered necklaces on the girl in the brown minidress, the random scarves tied around one thigh, the tall socks in bright colors
  • how many people do you see wearing bellbottoms, as opposed to pants that are wide-legged the whole way down? surprise, bellbottoms weren’t nearly as much of a Thing as you’d expect.
  • given that these photos are supposed to be from ‘69, I’d guess that they were from a school in a major metropolitan area– actually, probably LA or somewhere else that was very fashion-forward. A lot of these looks didn’t make it into the middle of the country until the 70s were well underway. And there are people wearing things that read much more 70s, like the woman in the long red vest and wide-legged blue pants. I think there were still plenty of schools that wouldn’t have let girls wear pants to class even by ‘69, so that’s another sign that this particular school was ahead of the curve.
#I know I could technically dress this way any time#but I want society to LET ME#these girls look amazing#and COMFORTABLE#fashion#60s fashion#70s fashion
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