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This page shows a selection of clothes by 1960s designers, recording how fashion changed throughout the decade. During the early years, formal suits for women underwent a structural change resulting in looser lines and shorter skirts. By the mid-sixties, the flared A-line was in style for dresses, skirts and coats.
Men's suits became sleeker and were often accessorised with bright, bold shirts and high-heeled boots. The flamboyant look was in, signalled by wider trousers and lapels, like those belonging to the blue checked Tommy Nutter suit seen here.
Designers experimented with shiny new waterproof materials with a modern look like PVC and perspex. Paco Rabanne pioneered dresses made from plastic discs and metal links which looked more like sculpture than clothing.
As ethnic influences took over, the most fashionable people wore long layers of loose clothing in vivid, clashing colours, typified by Thea Porter's kaftans and Pucci's dazzling prints.