The trends of the 60s that will prevail in the fall of 2022

Fashion trends are cyclical, that is, everything we wear has a meaning and a reason that is determined based on a specific situation. Fashion has always been vindictive because it was people’s reaction to what they had to live. From supporting movements to completely rejecting and expressing their opinion. That’s why, just as creating trends had meaning back then, though they seem more diffused now and moving faster than ever, they have it.

We have seen the most recent case of a global pandemic where companies are betting fast on comfortable clothing that would allow us to be at home with the utmost well-being in the current situation. For a few months, the trends continued on the same path until this year we saw them explode in color blocking to embrace the dopamine fashion. Why? The desire to return to life as we knew it, without limitations and to enjoy every minute of it.

Now, this fall-winter we can confirm that one of the most important decades of fashion is back, the 60s with their mini skirts, mary jane style shoes, straight dresses (also in their mini version), white boots and the most colorful patterns . A decade that marked such important aspects as sexual liberation, expression and thinking, the revolution marked by the hippie culture, pleasure and the search for identity. These are some of the trends Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy or Jackie Kennedy wore and the significance of their return to street style no less than 60 years later.

mini skirts

While the miniskirts seem to have been the boom of the 2000s and have returned hand in hand with the Y2K aesthetic, they actually originated in the 60s when Mary Quant championed this garment not only for the youngest, but also for any age could feel the freedom that this garment offers in its shorter version. A view of sex that is conveyed through women’s attitudes to life, not through their clothes.

psychedelic prints

Another trend we saw in the 60s is the psychedelic and geometric prints like checkerboards that triumphed last year and are still preserved this year. Also linked to art and betting on flower power, one of the most remembered trends of the time. The prints are synonymous with the experimentation of a society now faced with a post-pandemic world where new opportunities arise after nearly two years of incarceration in which we were all subjected to the cessation of our lives.

Two pieces

In addition to mini skirts and their message, the futuristic fashion of Paco Rabanne and Courrèges, there was another trend that is making a strong comeback this fall: matching two-piece outfits such as suits, wide-leg shirts or mini skirts with jackets. It was then the alternative for women who did not see the miniskirt as an option for them.