Key Takeaways
With so many straight - spike adolescent in the fifties , it was only natural that there would be a backlash . Welcome to the 1960s ! complimentary love , flower power , hippie , psychedelic drugs , and political havoc – these were the trends of a decade that see upheaval of societal mores and cultural demeanor . As The Beatles sway and Bob Dylan rolled , the mankind see change in the political climate ( Vietnam War dissent , the intimate rotation , civil rights ) , the fashion Earth ( " It ’s called a ' miniskirt - skirt , ' Mom " ) , and even in the realm of food ( the mighty processed cheese slice ) .
Read on to read about some of the most iconic fads of the 10 that just wanted everyone to get along .
1. Hippies
U.S. troop were sent to Vietnam in 1954 and , by the sixties , G of soldiers had died oppose a war that was growing more and more unpopular by the sidereal day . The battle cry " Make Love , Not War " was a mantra among the hippies – the antiestablishment , counterculture of America . hipster were well spotted : both world and women grow their hair long , endure cultural - inspired clothes accessorized with puka shell , dabbled in easterly religions , used Logos like groovy , and referred to " the Man " when talking about the blemished government . They were known to experiment with mind - altering drugs ( marijuana , mushrooms , LSD ) and hang out in places such as Greenwich Village in New York City and the Haight - Ashbury incision of San Francisco . The flower child movement sparked euphony , nontextual matter , and ethnic dialog that preserve well into the 21st century .
2. Go-go Boots and Minidresses
The postwar baby boom had produced 70 million teenager by the prison term the 1960s came along . All of those hormones dictated some changes in the world of mode . Long gone was the poodle skirt . Skirts in the ' LX baffle shorter – much , much shortsighted . skirt and minidresses often come up four to five inch above the genu in the United States and an eye - popping seven to eight inches above the genu in the UK . While skirts acquire shorter , boots amaze taller . The most popular iron heel was the go - go iron heel , which was often white patent leather and went almost to the knee . Singer Nancy Sinatra and TV ’s The Avengers helped popularize the look .
3. Fallout Shelters
With the Cold War in full force , the Cuban Missile Crisis discover , and the constant scourge of atomic attack , many masses in the former sixties decided that building a fallout shelter was n’t such a paranoid notion . kit begin at around $ 100 ( torch , shortwave radio , can opener ) , but a family could spend thousands on especial basements equipped with board games , accelerator pedal masks , and head for the hills hatches .
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4. Surfing
What better place than a sunny beach to spread peace , goodwill , and loose love ? Polynesians had been surfing for centuries , but when lightweight surfboards became affordable in the late 1950s , everyone could grab a gameboard and hang ten . By the early 1960s , the fad had really get a wafture , and movies likeBeach PartyandBeach Blanket Bingohelped popularize surfing and beach culture .
5. Peace Symbol
Thanks to British graphic interior designer Gerald Holtom , no hipster had to go without a heartsease symbol talisman . Holtom , who was take to make an image for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , lay claim his inspiration for the symbolic representation came from the physical body of the letters N and D in the semaphore alphabet . The picture was adopted by the hippie and remains as democratic today as it was when protests and antiwar Marche were day-to-day events .
6. The Twist
This dance furore of the early 1960s come as the resolution of Chubby Checker ’s number one song of the same name . The Twist was the first advanced dance dash that did not want a collaborator , and couples did not have to bear on each other while dance . Checker said , " It ’s like putting out a cigarette with both feet , [ or ] coming out of a shower and wipe your bottom with a towel to the beat of the music . " It seemed like everyone was jumpstart on the bandwagon with a Twist track record . Checker also memorialize " Let ’s Twist Again , " and Joey Dee and The Starliters reached telephone number one with " The Peppermint Twist , " while Sam Cooke was " Twistin ' the Night by . "
7. Tie-Dye
The ancient fabric dyeing method acting of shibori begin in Japan 100 ago , but it became a mode trend symbolic of the 1960s . By roll material around peg or gathering and stop up it with rubber bands , then submerging it in a bucketful of dye , a funky , almost hallucinogenic pattern emerges when the joint or prophylactic circle are take out . This homemade method acting became popular with hippies , providing living color to the ethnic feeling that so many embraced during the era of complimentary love and liberation . Tie - dyed clothing is still passably much the received uniform for peaceniks today .
8. Lava Lamp
Invented by Edward Craven Walker , this novelty lighting cat’s-paw featured a glass bottleful full of wax and crude oil with a coil in the alloy base . When the lamp was turned on , the volute would heat up and globs of wax would bubble around in the oil , producing a " lava " effect . Some claimed the lava lamp was meant to imitate the hallucinogenic visuals from the drug that were becoming so popular .
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