Groovy Baby….

As I said before, today, I escaped football by fleeing to the Victoria and Albert museum Swinging Sixties exhibition.  I thought it would be a standalone room like the Anna Piaggi one but instead, they incorporated it with the existing fashion section.  It was really insightful though to revisit and re-new my knowledge of sixties fashion.  Everyone knows the big names – Mary Quant, Biba etc. but I learnt a bit more about other designers that made it big for a short spell during those ‘swinging’ times.  The website also has lots of little extra bits like people’s memories of sixties fashion, interviews and you can watch a rather hilarious 1967 documentary In Gear which documents the London fashion phenomenon.  Here are some pics I took. 

And the part I’d most like to ressurect today.  Paper dresses!  These were incredibly cheap and were reproduced in different patterns regularly.  With technology today, a dress made out of paper that could withstand wear and tear is definitely possible.  I can just about imagine it – Dress in a Packet – 1 pound each!  Gosh….to see the day when a dress could cost as little as a pound would be great indeed….