Archive for the ‘Clothing’ Category
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Gen Wright asked: Beads hold ancient roots, and their cultural significance can be traced to their early use in bartering. Beads served as a primitive currency, and they still retain their value today. In modern times they are found in the form of decoration as jewelry, rather than money.In earlier ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Thomas Cohen asked: One thing that so many people don't realize is that many hippies were in their own way fashion designers. While a true hippie would have never dreamed of joining the “capitalists” and “exploiting the masses” to market their creations commercially, many of their children have had no ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Thomas Cohen asked: As crazy as it sounds, the hippie or flower child look is finding its way back into fashion conscious peoples wardrobes all over the world now. The truth of the matter, is that there really is a creative gold mine in the hippie era that has yet ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Melanie Click asked: The sixties was the decade that broke many fashion clothing rules. The late sixties saw the advent of the hippie movement along with its particular clothing fashions of bell-bottom jeans and flowing caftans made in batik prints and tie-dyes.If you didn't go for hippie fashion then you ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Ka asked: Fashion greets with joy the return of Poncho; an amazing and colourful piece of clothes that everyone needs in their winter wardrobe.At the end of the 60s, poncho, along with huge skirts decorated in flowers and bell-bottoms, became the typical piece of garments of those young people who ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Synapse India asked: The spirit of the festival of Halloween inspires people from all the ages to get some of the creative costumes. However, the rising cost of costumes may discourage some people to compromise with their styling and preference. In this article, we’ll talk about few economical Halloween costumes ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Thomas Cohen asked: It seemed that as the 60s faded out and the 70s came along to replace an ere there was a few characters that failed to notice that the decade had changed. They were referred to as “old hippies” and they hung on tight to what they felt ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Thomas Cohen asked: So, it may be that everything in fashion comes around full circle in thirty years or so. Who would have thought that when hippies and flower children were experimenting with their clothing they were actually making fashion history. In retrospect it only makes sense, because there really ...
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