17 Groovy Photos of of High School Fashions in 1969
(Photos: Arthur Schatz—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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17 Groovy Photos of of High School Fashions in 1969
(Photos: Arthur Schatz—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
This applied to happening places on the West Coast like California mostly, maybe some places on the East Coast. But these fashions didn't really reach the majority of high schools in the country (e.g. the "flyover states") till the next decade. It's an iconic stereotype of this era but not as widespread as people think, outside certain communities, like musicians. Anyway I'd rather have been in London in this time.
In 1969 my mom age is 23, so in this era.. they are mothers and grandmas.. lovely😍💋.. without a social media .. mobile phone, they're still fabulous.. attractive
Just looked like a lot of people wearing shit that didn't fit.
Gee how wonderful and beautiful these young women looked and look NO dyed hair, shaved heads, fat- obesity, face piercings, tattoos, cell phones, backpacks, PC, LGBTQ, twerking and showing/acting disrespectful behavior. I seem to recall there was a dress code my sister and cousins back then could only wear a dress no pants until 70 or 71 I might be wrong but I look at today's HS girls/my grand daughter's friends and I'm appalled at what some of there friends look and act like and that there parents allow them to dress and act like, thank GOD they don't.
Ahorita los chicos se acuerdan de su ex y que se casaron con otras apoco no les pasa eso a los casados cada ves que ven un album de fotografias
So wholesome and beautiful!
This makes me cry for humanity. What a time to be alive and in the moment. Satan created the media , government officials are puppets of the under world and something big is coming. god bless everyone
just for the record; hippie fashions were clothing always aquired free/on the cheap! -no exceptions!
thank you for this posting. what lovely girls ..and clothes! (what? they didn't shave where? that's disgusting!)
What an incredible time to be a teenager. I wasn't even born as yet.
Why do you keep calling what was normal wear "hippie fashion"? It wasn't. Look up what true hippies looked like and what they wore and that is a "fashion" which even back then you couldn't get into school wearing. You obviously are of a generation very far removed from those days and haven't the faintest notion of what you purport to be showing. I was born in 1957 and grew up through all of this. These so called hippie kids looked very nice and clean. Compare them to todays trash that is worn by youth and considered fashionable. I welcome a return to the colorful, inspired patterns of the mid '60s to mid '70s.
There were no nerds or dorky kids in 1969? Everyone looks like a cool, beautiful kid. Or did they only take pictures of the beautiful, popular people? Where are the loser kids who looked less then beautiful, and who dressed out of step with whatever was trendy and cool?
Great days ,foxy ladies
Hot pants and miniskirts…
@1:45
Wow, what a gorgeous girl!
3:00 Navy Gingham Tiered Pinafore
OMG I remember those "groovy"bellbottoms. I was 16 that year.
So natural & cute. Not like Today…
I think at least some of the photos are staged fashion bits. That bare midriff would not meet any dress code I know of back then. And some of them strike me as modern kids dressing like what they think kids back then dressed. I don't know.
Much enjoyed!
Not very represenative of the country, more like California. Half weren’t they type of dress the hippys wore back then and most were a lot dirtier.
Every one looks happy and relaxed!a contrast with to day!
At 1:40, the picture features SoCal HS student, Rosemary Shoong in a hand-made dress. She’s featured again at, 2:35, as a SoCal HS student wearing a “Mini Jupe” skirt. I wonder if she made the skirt as well.
Depressing how everyone is so fat at such a young age now. What they hell are they going to look like a 40? If they make it that far.
I remember it well…
Most of those clothes were being worn in my junior high in 1974.
Missing short shorts hot pants
Inane music.
Mini skirts with boots….jeans with midriff blouses…flowing blouses…"granny" dresses (midi's and mini's)…jeans…jeans…jeans…….mini's….mini's…..mini's. And remember, most schools before 1968 had rigid dress codes. Girls could not wear pants even in winter (in the Midwest!). The girls in my combined Middle and High school staged a protest with all wearing pants one Thursday. The dress code changed the next day.
You need the Doors song 20th century Fox for this
I liked these pictures but I was only 13 at the time
Back when the chrome was thick and the women were straight. I miss those days.
I like modern fashion. I think that a lot of the things that are designed today are inspired by these days and I love that because a lot of things look so amazing
i know for a fact that NYC high school kids didn't dress anything like that in '69
What great people. . .they don't make em like that anymore
So beautiful. They didn't need tat sleeves to look hot.
If you can't stand snowflakes, don't read the comments. Jesus Christ, a woman can get tattooed and gain 20 pounds if she wants to.
I thought there were only a few who looked sweet and feminine, most of them looked too big and made-up and….even old. That's an area Western women have improved upon greatly since then.