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1970s in fashion

1970s in fashion

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Fashion in the 1970s was about individuality. In the early 1970s, Vogue proclaimed "There are no rules in the fashion game now" due to overproduction flooding the market with affordable synthetic clothing. Common items included mini skirts, bell-bottoms popularized by hippies, vintage clothing from the 1950s and earlier, and the androgynous glam rock and disco styles that introduced platform shoes, bright colors, glitter, and satin. Many societal trends of the 1960s grew stronger in the 1970s and continued to influence fashion, with women having discarded cumbersome and uncomfortable undergarments by the early 1970s, including bras, and overall favoring more comfort and mobility in dress and in life than had been the norm as recently as the 1950s. Decades-old standards of formality continued to be relaxed or dispensed with, with trousers for women outnumbering skirts and dresses on city streets for the first time in Western fashion history. Environmental concerns that had arisen in the...

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