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Is Fashion Running Out Of Ideas?


Is fashion really any different today than it was over 40 years ago in the swinging 60’s? It must be, surely. So much in this modern, fast, moving world has changed over this period. Today’s laptop computers would have filled a large room 40 years ago; the Internet didn’t even exist. Materials such as Lycra and Spandex were unheard of. It is true that modern materials and techniques have brought today’s fashion designers, manufacturers and retailers greater flexibility and opportunity to experiment than ever before and yet are the clothes they are producing really that much different to way back then?

Just look at this year’s magazines, the high street shops and out there on the streets – polka dots, miniskirts, wedges, big hair, and metallic glam. All things lifted directly from the 60’s. ‘Second skin dresses with a sixties vibe are here to stay.’ Vogue, February 2007. To really answer the question let me take you back to......

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