#1960s ladies fashion

[stricklandvintagewatches]

The stunning Miss Jean Shrimpton, an English dream often considered the world’s first supermodel. Here she is in the late ‘60s, exemplifying both beauty and taste, wearing a man’s wristwatch of the period quite well.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

1950s and 1960s photos of ladies posing with their car

[oldvintageglamour]

Black beauty from Cavalier Magazine, 1965 😍😍😍😍

[mrskennedy]

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy in San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 15th, 1961. In this clip, the First Lady is excitedly greeting world-renowned cellist Pablo Casals.

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

Audrey Hepburn and Assam at the Burbank Studios for the production of My Fair Lady in 1963

[voguefashion]

Jean Shrimpton wearing a Lady Van Heusen shirt-blouse, photographed by William Helburn in New York, 1964.

[vintagepromotions]

Advertisement for Lady Buxton jewelry boxes (1962).

[fayegonnaslay]

Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy. Photograph by Cecil Beaton for American Vogue, 1964.

[retropopcult]

June 1961

[stricklandvintagewatches]

We love Dame Diana Rigg, who starred as Emma Peel in the famous '60s British TV series "The Avengers." Rigg's outfits were truly of the era and we think the pocket watch belt is simply groovy.

[theamandacollection67]

August 1964 Long Beach

[oldvintageglamour]

Ja'net DuBois "A Man Called Adam", 1966 🖤😍🖤😍🖤

[mrskennedy]

Jackie Kennedy and Rudolf Nureyev strolling through New York City. 1967.

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

Audrey Hepburn and Warner Brothers hairdresser Dean Cole preparing for the "I Could Have Danced All Night" sequence in My Fair Lady at the Burbank Studios in 1963 Photography by Bob Willoughby

[marzipanandminutiae]

You made a post stating that pierced ears weren’t accepted in America from the 20s to 60s, but I was under the impression that many women, esp in the 40s and 50s, often wore classic Pearl or diamond stud earrings. Have I been deceived by Hollywood again?? :c

Clip-ons and screw-backs, my dear Anon!

(Screw-back earrings, c. 1950s)

Piercing your ears was frowned upon, but wearing earrings remained wildly popular. I don't understand the logic here, since it looks functionally identical to wearing pierced earrings in practice, but apparently that was A-okay.

Earring clamped onto your ear? Fine! That exact same earring going through your ear? DIRTY AND/OR FOREIGN HARLOT.

Make it make sense.

(Pierced earrings DID still exist, since some women- for cultural or personal reasons -bucked the zeitgeist. But they were by far the less common of the two options.)

(Also, clips and screw-backs hurt in my experience. Like. You have your ear pinched in a vise for as long as you're wearing them, basically. My mom, born 1953, remembers Grandma taking her clip earrings off the second she got home from a party, always. And yet I saw clips advertised as "torture-free" earrings in a 1930s ad. Yes, skip the torture of like 30 seconds with a needle for the comfort and ease of clamping something heavy onto your ear with sheer pressure, all day long.)

(The whole "pierced ears bad" fad makes about the least sense to me of any fashion-related historical Hot Take.)

[voguefashion]

Jean Shrimpton wearing a Lady Van Heusen shirt-blouse, photographed by William Helburn in New York, 1964.