THE HIPPIE FASHION

The fashion of the seventies hippies was not by all the rules a direct fashionable style. Everything which was becoming was allowed. The clothing should express the feeling of freedom and independence not to submit to fashion trends. Therefore, everything was combined and worn that was possible.

The trend for clothes with flashy sleeves, frills and flanges and so on crystallised because it was basicly comfortable to wear and also decanted definite from the modish unit.
First, when the fashion industry picked up the issue hippie fashion this kind of clothing was accostable to the populace and a real fashion trend developed which stamped the complete decade.
Concise to the hippie fashion style were, as already hinted, wide chemises and blouses which were often coloured in batik fashion. There were also the shirts in batik-look and of course the well-known bell-bottoms which gets further down to border and creates the famous flare.

Later, there was a visible trend to tight shirts which could accomplish beside the wide clothing. In this time, the flower topic was very popular. Flowers were used as patterns at dresses, chemises and so on and so, the attitude "flower power" was expressed visually as well. The screaming and colourful colours on which they made a point of, were very incisive in hippie fashion.