1950s

1960s

UNEXPECTED CHANGES

• Coming out of the 1950s the people of Britain never thought that life would change as much as it did. The dreary days of rations had been and gone but life was still much the same old routine.

• But the brighter days of the 60s lay just around the corner…

1960s DIY • At the end of the 1950s most households were

decorated in dark wood furniture, grandfather clocks and carpets or tiles in the same plain colours.

• However, when the 1960s arrived with an air of change about them, modern families decided that it was time for a revamp.

• Delicately carved doors were boarded up and painted; Fireplaces were boxed in and new, lightweight furniture replaced the usual, dull colours with dazzlingly bright ones.

LIFE AT HOME IN THE 1960s

The audio cassette tape was invented in 1962

The first touch tone telephones were introduced in 1963

Television sets became much more popular and were seen in most households

Cars became more and more developed and models such as the Chevy camaro (left) and the Ford Shelby mustang (right) became very popular.

TECHNOLOGY

Coronation Street – First aired in 1960

The thunderbirds

The Magic Roundabout

Doctor who- First aired in 1963

TELEVISION

The 60’s as We know it.....

Send me no flowers

1964

A hypochondriac

thinks he's dying this time,

and makes plans for his

wife which she discovers and misunderstand

s.

Director: Norman JewisonStars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day

How to steal a million 1966

Romantic comedy about a woman

who must

steal a statue from a Paris

museum to help conceal

her father's

art forgeries, and the man who

helps her.

Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole

Vampire hunter Van Helsing returns to

Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has

designs on beautiful young schoolteacher

Marianne.

Paris when it sizzlesThe sprightly

young assistant of a

Hollywood screenwriter

helps him over his

writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible

plots.

Audrey Hepburn and William

Holden

Cleopatra

Elizabeth Taylor

Historical epic. The

triumphs and tragedy of

the Egyptian queen,

Cleopatra.

The film industry experimented in the 60’s. Life was so easy going

and free, that anyone would watch anything. Colour was used

to show how modern the film was, However some films still stayed in black and white. Audrey Hepburn and Doris Day were the big well know actresses of their day (and

even today).

The Early Sixties

Suits

Short Boxy Jackets

Over-sized buttons

Simple, Geometric Patterns

Evening Wear – Full Dresses

Stiletto Heels

Mini - Skirts

Biker Fashion

The ‘A – Line’ Dress

MOD’s

The Mid - Sixties

Mary Quant

The Late Sixties

Frayed Bell Bottom Trousers

Work Shirts

Headbands

Tie Dye Shirts

Baggy Trousers

Often were bare foot

Men’s fashion and Music in the 60’s

M ds

The British Mod style emerged from a desire among British youth to break away from the stiffness of the 50’s and uncouth look of the teddy-boys, and to emulate the more stylish Italian, French and, latterly, American fashions.

The original and enduring mod style is a slim-fitting dark coloured suit, worn with a lighter coloured shirt and thin, dark tie, along with a pair of dark shoes.

Mods usually prefer a two-tonic coloured suit, made of a light material and fronted by three buttons (with the bottom button being left undone).

Vibrantly expressed by The Who with their symbolic use of arrows, Union Jack jackets and RAF target emblems.

Mod Bands

• The Who• The Small Faces• The Kinks• The Yardbirds• The Action

Rockers

The Rockers were another teenage subculture of the '60s, who rivalled the Mods.

Unlike the bright, fun and classy look of Mods, Rockers preferred to be more scruffy and rebellious.

They wore heavy biker boots or brothel creepers and accessorised with studs and chains.Rockers’ fashion was

heavily influenced by bygone decades

Rocker Bands

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience• Elvis• The Rolling Stones• Pink Floyd• The Doors

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