Sixties Fashion: The Teenage Revolution (TRIH eps 363-364)
1957–1963 · Resource
A two-part series on British fashion from wartime austerity to Swinging London: postwar styles, Teddy Boys and Mods and Rockers, then the shift dress, the miniskirt and the 1960s cult of youth.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1957
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)