Hippie Style

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Refusing ready-made clothes and mixing handwork, folk dress and secondhand finds, it made the counterculture visible and brought DIY and eclecticism into fashion.

Hippie Style — Hippies in Haight-Ashbury 1967 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Hippies in Haight-Ashbury 1967 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Hippie Style — Crowd at Woodstock 1969 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · © Derek Redmond and Paul Campbell — Crowd at Woodstock 1969 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · © Derek Redmond and Paul Campbell

At a glance

Visual cues

Handwork and embroidery
Mixed folk dress
Customized denim
Long hair, back to nature

Best used for

Remaking a ready made garment into your own through embroidery and patching
Showing the marks of slow handwork as the value itself

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Dictionary entry

Type: Letters embroidered or painted by hand, never a tidy typeface
Composition: Let lengths and patterns disagree and build the outline by layering
Material: Secondhand denim, indigo and plant dyes, embroidery thread, patches
Caution: Layering folk dress as pattern without learning what it means erases where it came from and invites the charge of appropriation.
Further study: The Summer of Love, 1967 / appropriation questions around folk dress / communes and handwork

Related entries

Psychedelic (サイケデリック)Shared effects: Rebellion.Compare Hippie Style and Psychedelic
Solarpunk (ソーラーパンク)Shared effects: Intimacy.Compare Hippie Style and Solarpunk

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