Rasta hair? I think not. I associate rasta hair with extreme fanatic left wing protesters. Tie dye?? yeah that's hippie but i don't know. I think tie die is ugly Bohemian style. This I like. I really like the bohemian style. Boho chicks are really sexy but these days the boho style is more commercial and for fashion people who are not hippie at all/ But I like this style very much. The victorian style. Very psychedelic with big hats and long coats. Clothing like in the movie gangs of NY. The bohemian style og 19th century paris where the boho's where born. The indian style. Cheesy californian style with striped shirts and bandana's Well I like the Boho style the most. (Don's know why i'm posting this. I'm tripping on Drugsss)
fftopic: Hippie JuJu Magic has nothing to do with hippie fashion.....hippie is who we are JuJu is anything that someone does and it's all Magic, everything around you
moved to hippies. I'd say laying off the superficial judgement trip would be a nice starting point......
I love wearing my peace necklace (39p from charity shop ) Not because it's a hippie fashion, but it reminds me to help others and think positive
i think hippies wear something different all the time. there's not one "style" they stick to. they wear whatever they want. at least that's how i dress. some days i wear bellbottoms and band tees or natural colours and people call me a hippie and then the next day i wear "grungy" stuff like flannels and jeans. then people are like "you're not a hippie" i just shrug it off. people have their own opinions, i think hippies are free, so they wear whatever the hell they fell like.
I had a thought that some of the original hippie styles emerged from the poverty of dropping out of society, and with little money to spend on clothes, more imaginative creations came forth from "necessity being the mother of invention". Jeans transformed into a skirt with a strip of cloth, or a bookbag. You could take all your old clothes and make a patchwork jacket, maybe dingy older t-shirts had a tye-dye makeover. It's humorous to find these styles on sale for a million dollars at boutiques.
I like long skirts and dresses with a touch of Indian style. Crocheted stuff...patchwork...natural fabrics...anything that doesn't look extremely mass-produced. I don't know if those things are really "hippie," but I think they look earthy and beautiful and make me feel more beautiful when I wear them. Honestly, though, I don't pay a whole lot of attention on clothes, so I'm usually found in jeans and a Tshirt/tank top, or whatever I find at Goodwill.
Just wear whatever you want. If you have to remind yourself that you bought something cause you think others will find it cool, or because you're trying to fit into a label, it's not 'hippie fashion'. People who wear tie dye because they think it represents them as a hippie, they're not wearing the hippie style. It's the ones that don't care about fashion or how they appear to others or what the price tag/label says that are wearing true hippie fashion. Aside from all that, I don't believe there really is a hippie style. To truly not care about clothing/appearance there has to be no concept of what looks good and what doesn't. Like I said before though, just wear what you want.
yeaa i believe u should wear whatever you want. For it to be "hippie fashion" you shouldnt have to look in the mirror andd say " Does this look ok?". JUst grabbing the first thing u see and wearing it is true hippie fashion.
I try to do my own thing. Yeah the peace love and happiness thing was in the right place I guess but going on and on I think it became more of a fashion trend =/ Ah Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas....
Don't think that the original hippies weren't concerned with fashion. Look back on those photos from the Haight and Hippie Hill and the festivals and all of the events around '67-'68. You'll see a LOT of kids who were trying very hard to promote a specific fashion. It was the fashion of rebellion. Everything was worn to achieve a specific result: To shock straight people out of their hum-drum lives; to create a buzz; to inspire individuality and outrageousness. Certainly the fashion of the time, as eclectic as it was, was a true fashion. There were pretty wide boundaries, but we certainly recognized each other by our looks. Any kid who went into a hippie enclave wearing short, greased back hair, black leather jacket, tight tapered jeans, and engineer boots was likely to be eyed suspiciously, until he proved himself to be a decent person. However, that fashion thing only really lasted for a couple of years. It was pretty much over by Woodstock, I would say. Some things lingered on, like jewelry selections, bell bottoms, etc., but for the most part the only thing that set the hippies apart from the mainstream, fashion-wise, was the hair. The bottom line, at least from my perspective, is that fashion is nice, but if it isn't making a statement that has some kind of effect on others, it's not really in the hippie tradition. If you're wearing it because you think it looks cool, that's okay. Why not? But, to promote the hippie tradition, you need to shake things up a bit with your style. The *old* hippy fashion is too tame to really have that effect, anymore. No one is horrified at a bunch of kids with flowers in their hair, sandals on their feet, and stacks of beads around their necks - not with people piercing and tattooing everything in sight (and lots of things out of sight.) Whatever is done to shock people should first shock and then draw attention to the message. If the message isn't a particularly good one (like goth and punk weren't) then it clearly isn't in the hippie tradition. Beyond that, wear whatever makes you happy.
