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60s Fashion: Vintage Fashion and Beauty Ads (Taschen Icon Series)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 659.1968709046
EAN: 9783822849354
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 3822849359
Label: Taschen
Manufacturer: Taschen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 172
Publication Date: January 01, 2007
Publisher: Taschen
Studio: Taschen
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Editorial Review:
This compendium of clothing advertisements brings back the most prevalent looks from the Swinging Sixties. The ubiquitous miniskirt is here in all its glory, along with mod fashions, Gidget/Beach Boys surfer looks, Correges space age clothing and such iconic items as the Rudi Gernreich topless bathing suit and Yves Saint-Laurent's Mondrian dress.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great review of 60's cultural history
I love this book! It's a great review of the culture of the 60's from the early portion of the decade which still had influences of the 50's to the mod and psychadelic fashions and fads of the latter end of the decade.
Rating:  - Fun even if you weren't around in the 60s
Except for a few pages in front giving a brief overview of the era, this book is full of bright, gorgeous ads from the 60s with no additional text. Mostly makeup, hair care, and other products for women, but with a decent amount of men's and children's ads as well.
It was amazing to see all the models who don't look like they were sculpted out of plastic (wrinkles! stray hairs! thick, clumped on mascara!) who still managed to look fabulous.
And going through the ads and counting the companies ... Read More
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