Started by husband and wife team Doug and Suzie Thompkins in 1968 as the Plain Jane Dress Company, Esprit became one of the biggest apparel…
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False eyelashes were already a common accessory for women by the 1960s, but when Twiggy’s long and lush lashes made her famous, girls wanted the…
The 1950s: The teenage lifestyle is born, and with it come bobby socks and boppers, poodle skirts and pompadours. Beehive Hair Bermuda Shorts Bobbie Brooks…
Op Art, Pop Art, Miniskirts and Mod; Bobs, Boots, paisley and eye-liner four inches thick . . . “The Swinging Sixties” and “The Roaring Twenties” were the only decades…
Fashion in the early 1970s seemed to have little rhyme or reason: both sexes wore tie-dyed shirts, ‘unisex’ bell-bottoms, and second-hand military attire (for an ironic-yet-stylish comment on…
The early 80s were all about BIG. Everyone needed bigger hair, bigger muscles, bigger breasts and bigger budgets to pull the whole thing off. Think Brooke…
Although synonymous with all those 1980s cliches of power-dressing, double-breasted suits and big hair, the Filofax has actually been around since 1921, and its template…
Girls had lace, boys had leather, but neither had fingers. No longer for cardboard-box-dwellers anymore, fingerless gloves were the super-cool street style of the 1980s.…
Move over bellbottoms, here comes something that looks . . . the same? Many people consider the slow spread of the trouser leg to be…
An early-70s look stolen from the gaucho (the traditional cowboy of Argentina), these wide-legged short trousers were the hottest things to wear with your Dingo…
“Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific” was a popular shampoo in the 1970s manufactured by the Andrew Jergens Company. The shampoo had a floral fragrance like…
In 1964, futuristic designer André Courrèges sent a model sashaying down the runway in a white mini with matching white, ankle-high boots. This new boot…
The granny dress was a style first embraced by the flower-child hippie for its romantic illusions and simple form. It alluded to a distant past…
Despite their name, granny glasses were a fashion statement of vibrant youth. Also known as Ben Franklin glasses, the specs actually first started appearing in…
Bohemian beauty Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac was a gypsy princess who brought the ethereal dream world of fairies to her fans. Her eclectic style…
Elvis may have been known as “The Pelvis” but his big pompadour hairdo was just as famous as his swivelling hips (it just didn’t make that neat rhyme).…
An abundance of disposable income combined with Hawaii’s entrance into the Union in 1959 manifested itself in the US as a mania for all things…
The Hawaiian shirt (sometimes known as the Aloha shirt), is a style of colourful dress shirt that originated (unsurprisingly) in Hawaii. According to some sources,…
Heroin Chic was a look popularised in mid-1990s fashion and characterised by pale skin, dark circles underneath the eyes and angular bone structure. The look,…
Like no other time before, the ’60s exploded into personal freedom and self-expression, seen through bands of teenagers with unique — and remarkably different —…