--- title: How 1960s Fashion Trends Reflected the Decade's History description: These images, from the new book 'Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip,' show how the social change of the 1960s influenced American style. canonical: https://time.com/4978502/mod-fashion-1960s/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-21T14:00:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:24.802Z article:section: History og:title: How 1960s Fashion Trends Reflected the Decade's History og:description: These images, from the new book 'Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip,' show how the social change of the 1960s influenced American style og:url: https://time.com/4978502/mod-fashion-1960s/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8df669bef4359789/6988e18cbc6cfc57ed3e37db/mod-fashion-new-york-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2405 og:image:height: 1353 og:image:alt: Mod Fashion og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How 1960s Fashion Trends Reflected the Decade's History twitter:description: These images, from the new book 'Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip,' show how the social change of the 1960s influenced American style twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8df669bef4359789/6988e18cbc6cfc57ed3e37db/mod-fashion-new-york-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How the Fashions of the 1960s Reflected Social Change > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Nov 21, 2017 2:00 PM UTC  Photo shoot at a school for one of the modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s. Photo shoot at a school for one of the modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s. Kwame Brathwaite © 1962  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Nov 21, 2017 2:00 PM UTC In the 1960s, the fashion world turned “topsy-turvy,” as TIME [noted](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-12-01/page/78/) in 1967\. Nearly every aspect of that revolutionary decade, from the civil-rights movement to the space race, was somehow reflected in the clothing worn by American women. The book [_Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580934986/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1580934986&linkId=12612f3f7555b9be9626beb2ab7772e2), which is being released in coordination with [a show of the same name](http://www.mcny.org/exhibition/mod-new-york) at the Museum of the City of New York (opening Wednesday), takes a look at the influences behind and lasting influence of American fashion in the years between 1960 and 1973\. As this sampling of photos shows, fashion’s reach was broad, stretching all the way to the White House.  Courtesy of The Monacelli Press & Museum of the City of New York As the book notes, for a long time before this period, American fashion hadn’t actually been all that American. High fashion, after all, was synonymous with France. But during World War II, when trade and communication with Paris grew more difficult, French designers’ counterparts in New York City stepped up. By 1960, as John and Jacqueline Kennedy — whose personal style was often drawn from French influences — floated into the White House with an aura of American youth, the idea of truly American fashion was not so far-fetched. As the rate of changing trends accelerated throughout the 1960s, women who cared about clothes threw off old norms about what was proper — just as much of American society broke loose from restrictions of the past. Though Jackie Kennedy broke new ground for American fashion, she made way for a series of looser and more revolutionary looks than she herself presented. Art and youth movements made themselves known in the fashion world. Black models and African-inflected clothing inspired and reflected the pride of the civil-rights movement. Feminism was embodied first in miniskirts, which defied the model femininity of the 1950s, and then with clothing designed for women in careers. What TIME once [called](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-01-20/page/92/) the “mod, mod world of fashion” was, it turned out, a crucial part of the larger mod, mod world of the 1960s.  Mannequin of Jackie Kennedy, a standard size 10, stands at John Frederics shop in New York where pillbox hats sell for $35 to $70. Yale Joel—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Central Park "Be-In." March 26, 1967\. Photograph by Frederick Kelly. Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Rena C. Kelly  Grandassa model Pat Bardonelle during the Garvey Day Parade, August 17, 1968. Kwame Brathwaite © 1962  Photo shoot at a school for one of the modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s. Kwame Brathwaite © 1962  Advertisement for the Cotton Producers Institute featuring a variation on Geoffrey Beene's atypical, Bohemian influenced Fall 1969 Bazaar collection. Published in Harper's Bazaar, September 1969. Museum of the City of New York Costume Archives  Advertisement for Chester Weinberg, published in Vogue, February 1, 1969. 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