Fashion of the 1960s featured a number of diverse trends, as part of a decade that broke many fashion traditions, adopted new cultures, and launched a new age of social movements. Around the middle of the decade, fashions arising from small pockets of young people in a few urban centers received large amounts of media publicity, and began to heavily influence both the haute couture of elite designers and the mass-market manufacturers. Examples include the mini skirt, culottes, go-go boots, and more experimental fashions, less often seen on the street, such as curved PVC dresses and other PVC clothes.
"Swinging London" fashions on Carnaby Street, 1966. The National Archives (United Kingdom).
Swedish beatniks in Stockholm, 1965
US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrives in Venezuela, 1961
A pair of go-go boots designed by Andre Courrege in 1965.
PVC clothing is shiny clothing made from the plastic polyvinyl chloride (PVC). PVC plastic is often called "vinyl" and this type of clothing is commonly known as "vinyl clothing". PVC is sometimes confused with the similarly shiny patent leather.
Woman in blue PVC shorts and top
Women in white and red PVC skirts and tops
Woman wearing a black PVC Bikini
Men's black PVC pants