One: Google the designers you mentioned and don't forget Mary Quant, Biba(the store), or Ozzie Clark. The Brit invasion (of their designers) had probably a bigger impact on what most people wore than most European fashion houses.
Two: If you can find one of the Dover published "Fashions of the 1960's as pictured in the Sears Catalog" that is a pretty good source as to what people wore. Three: Any book featuring color pics of fashions from the '60's and if you can lay your hands on some Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Elle, or Seventeen and Glamour mags those are really valuable sources. Or take a look at what Mattel came up for Barbie and gang, especially for Barbie's "Mod-ern cousin, Francie and British cousin Stacie dolls. Mattel did a Twiggy doll too and the fashions Mattel did at this time are just a time capsule of Mod fashion in doll scale. There are at least two books covering the Barbie Mattel line and those fashions. I myself wore a Carnaby street knock-off from the Sears catalog--a royal blue mini dress with white shirt-style collar and cuffs. From the collar was a faux man's four-in-hand tie in shocking pink with little white dots. Completing the look, I also had shocking pink knee-high socks, black Mary Jane shoes and the royal blue Dutch boy cap that came with the dress. I was ten and it is the first outfit I remember that 1)was the latest style, 2)all the pieces matched, and 3)didn't include a hand-me-down from my older cousins, or wasn't mother or grandmother made. In the 60's an all store-bought outfit in the mod style was a status symbol in my neighborhood. Fortunately, I was young and thin enough to wear a mini and look "cute" without Dad hitting the ceiling. Older girls in my neighborhood had to "fight" parents to wear minis and school rules that actually measured girl's skirt lengths to make sure we weren't "indecent" Ah, youth!! Have fun researching!! Cindy Abel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bjarne og Leif Drews Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:28 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Query about Mod and the mid-1960's What about try to look at the library? I know for instance the library at Museum of Decorative Arts in Copenhagen takes home all the fashion journals, and i think they have archived these. Bjarne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angharad ver' Reynulf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:46 PM Subject: [h-cost] Query about Mod and the mid-1960's > Greetings everyone! > > I'm popping out of lurkdom after Worldcon and Loscon to ask for help while > setting up another group set of costumes for next year's Friday Night Fun. > Wonder of wonders, they are pulling me out of medieval era > clothing/costume and into making more early-to-mid 20th century stuff. > > The theme is "Mod" as in the mid 1960's. My tighter focus, at least in > theory, is going to be closer to the items worn by Diana Riggs in the > Avengers, or one of the other similar designers, but I am also finding > interesting comments about a couple of other designers. I'll share a few > of the ones I don't want for myself with some of the other folks doing the > theme who haven't chosen yet as well. > > So my request is help in finding photos of garments made by John Bates > (Jean Varon), Andre Courneges, or Paco Rabanne. I'll be trying to > determine a fiber which I can easily wear, as most of the polyester I > remember from that time (since I was well, very young then) makes me break > out in serious cases of the itchies now. > > My husband's first vote is for the immediately identifiable first season > Emma Peel leather catsuit, but I want to see a few other ideas before I > make up my mind. (*grin*) > > Then to find a nice pair of 1940's patterns for me- one for day and one > for evening! > > Thank you, > > Jonnalyhn Wolfcat aka Angharat > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. > http://new.mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
