Historical Street Trends: Then & Now
1. Zoot Suits- High-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed trousers and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. Zoot suiters often wore a felt hat with a long feather and pointy styled shoes.
Current day looks inspired by Zoot Suits
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Costume National
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Adam Kimmel.
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Costume National
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Adam Kimmel.
2. Teddy Boys: Teddy Boy clothing consisted of long draped jackets, usually in dark shades, sometimes with velvet trim collar and pocket flaps, high-waisted , often trousers showing brightly colored socks. Footwear were chunky, large crepe-soled shoes, often suede. Plus a high-necked loose collar on a white shirt, and a narrow tie, and a brocade waistcoat.
1963, Teddy Boys
Current day looks inspired by Teddy Boys
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Rag & Bone
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Adam Kimmel
3. Beatniks: During the 1960s there was a trend among young college students who adopted the beatnik stereotype, with men wearing goatees and berets, rolling their own cigarettes and playing bongos. Fashions for women included black leotards and wearing their hair long, straight and unadorned in a rebellion against the middle-class culture of beauty salons.
1950-1960, Beatniks
1950-1960, Beatniks
Current day looks inspired by Beatniks
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Y-3
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Etro
4. Mods: The mod subculture were fashion-obsessed youths during the 1960s who lived in metropolitan London or the new towns of the south. Increasingly short miniskirts were in fashion. The beatnik and Teddy Boy subcultures helped pave the way for the mod style.
Current day looks inspired by Mods1960s, "Twiggy" Mod
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Preen
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Azzaro
5. Hippies: Appearance and clothing was one of the immediate legacies of hippies worldwide. During the 1960s and 1970s, mustaches, beards and long hair became more commonplace and colorful, while multi-ethnic clothing dominated the fashion world. A wide range of personal appearance options and clothing styles, including nudity, have become more widely acceptable, all of which was uncommon before the hippie era. Hippies also inspired the decline in popularity of business clothing, which had been unavoidable for men during the 1950s and early 1960s.
1966, Hippies in a Haight-Ashbury Clinic, San Francisco, CA
Current day looks inspired by Hippies
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Erdem
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Erdem
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Chloe
6. Disco: During the 1970s, disco fashion consisted of all sorts of skirt lengths from micro, mini to maxi, lighter weight clothes, ethnic fashion and style trends as a result of broader travel experiences, Kaftans, flared trousers, platform shoes, tank tops and mix and match coordinated knitwear.
1970s disco look (actual date of photo unknown)
Current day looks inspired by Disco
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Issa
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Issa
7. Punk: Early punk fashion consisted of ripped clothing held together by safety pins or wrapped with tape. They used ordinary clothing "punk" by embellishing it with marker or adorning it with paint; a black trash bag becomes a dress, shirt or skirt or safety pins and razor blades get used as jewelry. Leather, rubber, and vinyl clothing were also popular, possibly due in part to the fact that the general public associates it with sexual acts like S&M and bondage. Punks sometimes wear tight "drainpipe" jeans, Plaid pants, t-shits with risqué images,rocker jackets that were often decorated by painting band logos, adorning the lapels and pocket flaps with pins and buttons, and covering sections of the jacket, especially the back and sleeves of the jacket, in large numbers of carefully placed studs or spikes. Punks wore footwear such as Converse sneakers or Dr. Martins boots.
1980's, Punk Rock Style
1980's, Punk Rock Style
Current day looks inspired by Punk
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer G Star
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Gareth Pugh
8. Hip Hop: The hip hop style has evolved through time, starting in the early 1980s where brightly colored track suits and sporting wear was worn to achieve the hip hop look. Baggy jeans and over sized jerseys and sweatshirts (hoodies) was also a look in the hip hop culture. And now, many urban clothing designers continue to change the face of hip hop fashion by introducing looks from various periods of clothing styles combined with retro hip hop fashion.
Current day looks inspired by Punk
NEW TRENDS
1980's Retro Hip Hop Fashion
Current day looks inspired by Punk
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Y-3
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Iceberg
NEW TRENDS
1. Neck Scarves: This is a trend where people wear long strands of fabric draped around their necks, usually pairing it with a t-shirt, jeans and a jacket.
Current day looks inspired by Neck Scarves
Current Neck Scarves trend
Current day looks inspired by Neck Scarves
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer DKNY
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Burberry
2. Elite Grunge: This style, also known as "scenester" or "hipster" syles in certain cities is a look that usually incorporates skinny pants, baggy or lose fitting shirt or sweater, knitted beret/rhastafarian type head covering, a jacket, and sun glasses.
Current day looks inspired by Elite Grunge
Current "Elite Grunge" street look
Current day looks inspired by Elite Grunge
Top: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Twenty8Twelve
Bottom: 2009 Fall RTW collection from designer Shipley & Holmes
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