# Peacock Revolution (ピーコック・レボリューション)

> The Peacock Revolution released postwar menswear from the dark suit, spreading close tailoring, vivid color, velvet, frills and flowers into young men's street and stage dress while modern dandyism unsettled gender and class rules.

- IndexStyle No.597 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/peacock-revolution
- Kind: Style · Family: Fashion History · Era: mid-1960s–early 1970s
- Mood: Exhilaration, Rebellion, Luxury
- What this family collects: Read together, these show that when the shape of clothing changed, so did rules about bodies, gender and class, and the illustrated plate that spread the news is here too.

## Defining characteristics

- Close-fitting jackets and high waists
- Bold velvet, satin, floral print and vivid color
- Frilled shirts, scarves, wide collars and cuffs
- Long hair and heels within a delicate decorated male silhouette

## Best used for

- Returning color, pattern and soft material to tailored menswear
- Questioning conventional masculinity through a flamboyant outline in music and advertising

## Composition recipe

- Typography & lettering: Place a narrow serif or 1960s display face away from collars and frills.
- Layout & structure: Tailor shoulder and torso closely, concentrating detail at collar, cuff and scarf.
- Material & texture: Use velvet, satin, floral print and bright wool, keeping black only to sharpen edges.

## Colour

Read off the reference works below, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.

- Ground: #E8C65A
- The colour it is remembered by: #E56845
- Text and outlines: #4A164F

## What to avoid

A bright suit alone does not explain the revolution. Align tailoring, material, hair and jewelry as a reversal of menswear norms.

## Application checklist

Work through this before calling a piece an application of this style.

- [ ] Visible in the piece: Close-fitting jackets and high waists
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Bold velvet, satin, floral print and vivid color
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Frilled shirts, scarves, wide collars and cuffs
- [ ] Visible in the piece: Long hair and heels within a delicate decorated male silhouette
- [ ] The layout follows: Tailor shoulder and torso closely, concentrating detail at collar, cuff and scarf.
- [ ] The lettering follows: Place a narrow serif or 1960s display face away from collars and frills.
- [ ] The material and surface follow: Use velvet, satin, floral print and bright wool, keeping black only to sharpen edges.
- [ ] The colour relation holds: #E8C65A as ground, #E56845 carrying the style, #4A164F for text and outlines
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Mod (モッズ)** — Slim Italian suits, scooters and modern jazz made a rebellion carried out through refinement, and completed the marriage of consumerism and youth culture. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/mod-style
- **Glam Rock Fashion (グラムロック・ファッション)** — Early-1970s British rock used glitter, platforms, emphatic makeup, body-fitting clothes and quotations from science fiction and cabaret to turn performers into deliberately artificial stars separated from everyday life. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/glam-rock-fashion

## Compose it with something else

The dictionary can put this entry in a structural role and another in an accent role, and report where the two fight: https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=peacock-revolution+mod-style

## Further study

- Peacock Revolution menswear
- Carnaby Street tailoring
- Modern dandyism

## Reference works

- V&A — The Peacock Revolution: 1960s menswear — https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-peacock-revolution-1960s-menswear

## AI interpretation

An AI-generated interpretation image exists for browsing convenience only — it is not a reference work: https://indexstyle.org/ai/peacock-revolution.jpg

## Source of record

- V&A — The Peacock Revolution: 1960s menswear — https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-peacock-revolution-1960s-menswear

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/peacock-revolution
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/peacock-revolution/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compare_styles, compose_styles, find_related_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)