Tuesday 12 October 2010

Research

The following research is the primary research we did on the decades dating from the 1960's to the current day, we found our information through books, the internet and word of mouth.

2000's
Festival's started to become more more popular and it soon started a trend



2000's

Celebrating a revival of 20th century designs and a return to handcrafted, demi-couture pieces . The early first decade of the 21st century in the 2000 to 2003 still had some 1990s fashion trends until it slowly became less grungy and more excessive as the wearing of flannel by people under 30 declines and acid-washed jeans and shaggy hair become again commonplace for boys and men. Anti-fashion was still lurking in this decade. Tattoos become quite common in the middle of the decade. For girls and women hoop earrings, originally popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, returned to style circa 2004. Sunglasses begin to become less widespread as a fashion statement, until 2005 when large sunglasses were made popular by celebrities as Nicole Richie. Women's hair was typically long, straight and sometimes with side bangs. The end of the decade 2008 saw the return of thicker long hair seen in the early-mid 1990s with hair being layered and with volume


1990's






90's fashion seen some elements fromt he 80's staying, such as jeans, which were very popular with the grunge trend, coming fromt he music of the like of Nirvana. Boys and some girls were ofetn seen in oversized flannel shirts and jeans, and shaggy hair was a must. Whereas, some girls still had a strong influence fromt he 80's with sjirts and skirt suits still popular and always in bright colours.


1980's



The clothes worn in the 80’s depicted people who were trying to find themselves, the clothes expressed the wearers creativity and individuality and the fabrics and patterns that were common in this time were brightly coloured and fun looking. It was common place for men to wear heavy make up and grew their hair long, and the women often had short hair and wore many layers of clothing that were all different lengths and layered things such as cropped t shirts and ripped clothing. The styles from the 1980’s are majorly popular now and some of the trends that were popular in the 1980’s were; rose patterned jeans, trench coats, long scarves, jelly shoes/sandals, gold bamboo style door knocker earrings, guess denim jackets, ripped jeans, pink lipstick, blue eyeliner, heavy eyebrows, pumps, odd shaped earrings, spandex, headbands and wearing tight jeans that are tapered around around the ankles. One of the trends from the 80’s that has come back to be particularly popular in the present day is the jumpsuit. The jumpsuit was immensely popular in the 80’s partly thanks to Devo’s shiny silver jumpsuit in their 1980 video for ‘Whip It’. The jumpsuit was also popular as it looked effortless but shouted a fashion statement when it was worn. Now, the jumpsuit has been adapted to flow with the fashions of the present day, most are now sleeveless, without the batwing that was a necessity on the 80’s jumpsuits, but still present the colours and patterns of the original 80’s fashion trend.


1970's






The 1970's seen much more of a hippy vibe from the 1960's. After the Woodstick festival in 1969, people, men and women everywhere were seen in bell-bottomed jeans and string waistcoats. Jeans were also much more popular in the 70's, with mean and women wearing them with anything they could. Waistcoats and trouser suits again became more popular for women, and platform shoes were seen on many people. There was a disco craze, influenced by the music which became popular, with women wearing jersey wrap around dresses, and men again waistcoat and trouser suits.


1960's








The 1960's seen fashion change drastically from the usually feminine clothing of the 50's and 40's. Women became braver in what they were wearing, and after the release of Mary Quant, skirts became shorter, aswell as hair. After Twiggy became worldwide famous and an icon, girls were swapping long hair for drastic short boy cuts, which were to be seen as much more future fashion. Aswell as Twiggy's hair, girls were also copying her famous Twiggy eyes, making their makeup and look much more innocent. Women began to wear trousers and suits, and it was not seen as wrong.

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