Acid House Fashion
アシッドハウス・ファッション / 1988–1991 / Style / Subculture Style
Second Summer of Love warehouse raves put yellow smileys, fluorescent color and reflective material onto oversized tees and functional clothing made for hours of dancing, compressing community recognition into one simple face.
Black smiley on yellow / Oversized T-shirts, loose trousers and bucket hats / Fluorescent yellow, orange and green against black / Repeated reflective material, sports fabric and pin badges
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Carrying one instantly shared community mark through clothing and event print · Combining movement, functional fabric and high visibility for long nights of dancing
- Type
- Use rounded bold or hand-drawn rave lettering with the same single-stroke simplicity as the smiley.
- Composition
- Place one large figure at the center of a loose T-shirt and repeat smaller marks as pin badges.
- Material
- Print fluorescent color onto jersey, nylon and reflective material so the silhouette survives a dark venue.
- Caution
- A smiley pasted onto merchandise erases the dancing body, unofficial venue and shared community sign that gave it meaning.
- Further study
- Second Summer of Love / Shoom flyers and smiley adoption / Dance, heat and oversized clothing
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