Fashion from the 70s
In the early 1970s the fashion scene was very similar to the end of the 1960s, it was only slightly different with the style being more over the top. The material that most clothing was made out of was polyester and everyone wore big bright colours that really showed off as a statement. Men and women both wore tight fitting pants and platform shoes which had never been seen before, women especially explored with fashion but never before would they dress exactly like men. By 1973 most women were all wearing high cut boots and low cut pants and this was the beginning of a big fashion changing trend.

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Early 1970s fashion was a fun era for fashion because it had continued on some of the best trends of the 60s and just made them even better by perfecting or exaggerating them. Some of the best clothing of the 1970s was pieces that blended everyone together, especially the mods with the hippies. Some of the clothing that was very popular were pieces such as tunics, culottes and robes that were the go to outfits to wear. Everything was comfortable and it was even hard to tell sometimes what dresses were more causal and what were meant to be worn for a night out. Clothing or accessories such as butterfly collars, bell bottoms, skin-tight t-shirts, sandals, flower patterned dress shirts and tennis headbands where the rage and the biggest and before statement trends of the 70s.

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Colour by the end of the 1970s had pretty much almost completely disappeared and instead Earth tones such as greys, whites and blacks were back in full force. This is because people were beginning to get bored of wearing the brighter more statement colours that they had for so long. Vivid colours that once use to catch peoples attention when looking at an outfit became almost non existent. The midi skirt was a clothing trend that came around that a lot of women really didn't like and the colours/shades they came in such as purple, grape, raisin, plum, murky green or indigo didn't help it out at all.

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Hemlines were a crazy issue in fashion that people had very mixed opinions about as all across the fashion industry designers were dropping skirt lengths anywhere between the knee and ankle and called it the Midi Look or midi skirt. A lot of women did not like this trend at all, they were finally daring to show a big of skin and wear short dresses and skirt and now skirts were being made that completely covered their legs. Throughout the 1970s there was a constant common theme in fashion that didn't change and stayed a very big well liked trend and that was that trousers were always tight fitted and flared at the bottom.

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There was a lot more culture shown in fashion in the 1970s as Moroccan themed clothing was becoming quite big. This is because of pieces such as capes striped like bedspreads worn with folk-embroidered Hungarian peasant blouses which gave fashion a bit of ethnic flavour. Accessories were a must have and everyone wore them as they were a vital part of the new fashion trends. Chokers and dog collars replaced standard jewellery and new jewellery embraced natural elements like wood, shells, stones, feathers, Indian beads and leather and this was the new trend.