Sixties Fashion: Swinging London (TRIH ep 364, part 2)
1963 · Resource
This episode examines 1960s British fashion and youth culture, tracing the emergence and international impact of trends such as the shift dress, miniskirt and the cult of youth. The hosts open with Jean Shrimpton’s notorious appearance at Melbourne Derby Day (October 1965) and discuss Mary Quant’s influence, the rise of Twiggy (Leslie Hornby) as the face of 1966, and the aesthetic of The Avengers (Diana Rigg).
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Around 1963
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)