Fashion Fabrics: 1960s

by Constance Korosec and Leslie A. Piña

Fabrics can represent an era or a decade-the colors, patterns, textures, and fibers reveal as much about the culture as do the furnishings and clothing that relied on the fabrics. The decade of the 1960s was one of extremes. Traditional plaids were reintroduced and became popular at the same time as bold prints and geometrics, notably Op Art and "psychedelic" patterns and colors, characterized the decade. Synthetics took off, and phrases like "polyester...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764305840
• ISBN13: 9780764305849
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Schiffer Craft
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"