1960’s Trends

By Lillian Mateo

Historical events

Kennedy’s Assassination0 Kennedy’s got assassinated in Dallas, TX. This

shocked the public. After the assassination of Kennedy, everyone was very suspicious of each other. After his death everyone started wearing dark neutral colors.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/1960timeline.htm

Man on the Moon

0 Neil Armstrong was the very first astronaut to walk on the moon. He completed president Kennedy’s pledge to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Everyone at home was watching this on TV. It was the talk of the town.

Creation of Medicare/Medicaid

0 On July 30,1965, president Lyndon signed a bill that allows the elderly to have health insurance. This was very important because if a person did not have money to pay for the hospital bill, they had insurance to pay for it.

discoveries0 On December

1,1966 the first handheld pocket calculator was made.

June 1- the computer mouse was invented

Car seat belt invented

0 A car seat belt was invented by Nils Bohlin. It is consider the most important innovations of all time

Everyday people

1960’s fashion

Civil Rights Act of 1960

One of the major historical

events that happened in the 1960’s was the signing of he civil rights act of 1964. It was signed on may 6,1960. Dwight Eisenhower signed the document. This right was to get equal voting rights. This was really helping the African Americans because they were the target of discrimination of voting. There were punishments to anyone that tried to attempted to hurt anyone else’s voting.

https://sites.google.com/site/the60sandstuff/Home/major-events-of-the-60s

1960s Fashion Designers

Mary Quant

Hubert de Givenchy

Mary Quant

Mary Quant is a British icon and a fashion designer. Quant was the daughter of welsh school teachers. She also got a diploma in art Education from Goldsmith’s College in London. That’s when she met her husband/business partner. That’s when Mary started making her own clothes. Her designs were influenced by Chelsea Beatniks. She enjoyed making clothes so much that she opened up a boutique called Bazaar. She was the first designer to created the miniskirt. The JC pennies store bought her clothes to sell . Her clothes were a hit. She started appearing on makeup and accessories all around.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/mary-quant/

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Sleeveless dresses

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Dresses and skirts are invented.

How has Mary influenced women?

Mary opened up a generation of clothes for young women. She made clothes that showed off a woman's body. She made women feel more confident in their own skin.

Some of her many designs

Hubert de Givenchy

Hubert de Givenchy was born in1927. he was born to an aristocratic family in a French town. He got his passion for fabrics by his maternal grandmother. At age 17 he left to look for jobs for fashion in Paris. Later in 1945, Givenchy began his career as an apprentice of Jacques Fath. As he got more popular, he met his muse, Audrey Hepburn in 1953. Givenchy's most influential designs was the “sack” silhouette. He encouraged women to show off there legs during the day. He also promoted his very first perfume called L’interdit with the help of Audrey Hepburn. Now he is in his eighties and mainly keeps to himself now.

http://www.vogue.co.uk/spy/biographies/hubert-de-givenchy-biography

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His style was classic and gamine.

Black n sophisticated

How is he influential

He encouraged women to show off there assets in what they wear. Many women stated dressing more elegantly.

His designs:

The End