Rave Magazine Winter Fashion 1968

                                Look like a real dyed bunny? This cosy coat is, in fact, fur fabric!

                                And it's a real startler for brunettes! From Alexon Youngset, 16gns

          A smart, military style for this luxurious trouser suit in red wool with red mongolian lamb jacket,
          super buckle belt and hood. By Mansfields, 41gns. Black boots by Dolcis, 8gns.

             Bunny looking more like a jail-bird for this chevron design, zip-up coat in beige and white.

             By Goodkind Furs, 31gns. Beige leather boots by Dolcis, 8 gns. And the hat? ....

             Borrowed from a Russian taxi driver!

                             Madly extravagant, a real fox fur coat by Rosenberg Furs, 80gns.

                     Double -breasted with a difference-this coat has luggage type fastening!

                     In simulated black fur, by Alexon Youngset, 16gns. Black boots called "Riding"

                     by Dolcis, 8gns.

                           Cuddly fake fur coat with matching gaiters (not shown). By Kashmoor,
                           coat 22gns., gaiters 1½ gns.


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             (All images & original text scanned by Sweet Jane  from Rave Magazine november 1968)

Vintage ad...Betsey Johnson 1967

                             Body Paint by Coty Originals..Dress by Betsey Johnson for Paraphernalia

                             (image scanned by Sweet Jane from Seventeen Magazine July 1967)

Vintage Ad - Vidal Sassoon 1969

                                               Tights by Berkshire, Hair by Vidal Sassoon

                                          ( image scanned by Sweet Jane from Flair Magazine 1969 )

Rave Magazine 1964

                                                            Issue No. 8 September 1964

                                                              Issue No. 10 November 1964

                                                              Issue No. 9 October 1964

      

                                                               Issue No. 6  July 1964

New York's Young Design Scene 1967

A really fantastic fashion editorial from 1967, introducing upcoming design talent from New york fashion and art students, and featuring amazing use of infrared photography by Barry Kaplan.

The stars and stripes outfit in the 3rd photograph has been a particular favourite of mine for many years, I had previously seen it used as a reference to the era in a couple of 1960s fashion source books, however there was never any credit given to the designer, so I couldn't believe my luck when I bought this issue of Life a few months ago, it's great to be able to finally put a name to it's creator! (apparently in reality,without the use of infrared film the outfit is actually patriotic red, white and blue). Everyone included in this article had great potential, as a fellow designer, I would like to think that they all went on to have successful careers in fashion, i'd love to see more of their work and know what became of them after it was was published... 

  

Canary lips, chalk-white skin, flaming hair-is this really what's happening, baby? Not quite.

The clothes are designed to be worn by young people under 21, but the colours are something else.

They are the doing of an inventive photographer, himself equally young, who achieved his bizarre

effect by using infrared film. As if seen under the madly shifting lights of a discotheque, red turns to

yellow, blacks to red, blues to purple and reality to fantasy. Fledgling fashionmakers some not yet

out of school, are responsible for the designs shown here. Produced by their creators on a one-of-a-kind basis, they are sold at a New York boutique called Abracadabra.

                     Skimpy knit dresses $50, designed by Leilani Abreu, worn with Dynel wigs by Tovar.

                        Velvet (the kind that's used for upholstery) makes a formal-style knicker suit ($75)
                                                            designed by Terry Berman

                                   Star and stripes outfit ($40) designed by art student Karen Sebiri

                                               Zippered nylon suit ($90) by Barbara Hodes

   Short shift of clashing stripes with one bare shoulder, has a diagonally cut-off hemline.

by Susanne Les

                                                Button trimmed dress ($70) by Karen Sebiri

               Suspendered overall ($70) worn with a ruffle-trimmed satin blouse and antique silver buttons

                                                              by Paula Ayers

                                    Mini wedding dress of white organdy ($200) by Stan Weaver



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    (All images scanned by Sweet Jane from Life Magazine August 1967, photographer Barry Kaplan)
                       

Dandy Fashion: Male Plumage 1968

Scene: Master Bedroom in Suburbia.  Time: Saturday, 8 p.m
The master of the house stands before a three-way, floor-length mirror, 
touching up his 2-inch sideburns and drooping Zapata mustache. He looks gratified-even thrilled.
But what to wear? Should it be his eggshell brocade Nehru suit? Or his simulated cobra skin double-
breasted dinner jacket? Or his lime colored tunic with a chain belt and zip-up white mink coat?
Time passes. Finally, going to the closet, he grabs a diaphanous blouse with ruffles, then his royal blue
crushed-velvet suit. Moments later, he is back at the mirror admiring the Napoleonic roll of the 6-inch collar, the pinched waist, the svelte velvet pants and the slender patent-leather slippers with the silver buckles. After a quick application of his face bronzer and a last caress of his razor-cut graying hair,the man strides from the bedroom and descends the staircase. "Well?" he asks. "Fantastic," snarls his wife. "But I wish you wouldn't take so long. We're already a half hour late."

This is the intro to an 8 page article which was published in Newsweek Magazine on the 25th of November 1968, paying homage to the rebirth of the dandy. There are some very good interviews from designers such as Pierre Cardin, Oleg Cassini, Bill Blass and Hardy Amies, it also covers the rise of some of the lesser known male boutiques and trends of the time, apparently in London, an american public-relations consultant named Larry Thaw opened a boutique called Sids-devoted entirely to red, green, tan, dark blue, gray and tortoise-shell patent leather shoes, while in New York a boutique called 'The Zoo' ('Attire for the male animal') specialized in vinyl jackets and suits. (Sample Zoo fare: a $90 yellow vinyl see-through bush jacket to be worn over a jumpsuit.) In Los Angeles, The Great Linoleum Clothing Experiment were selling old shirts decorated with new swatches of doilies and shawls (average price $40). And in Palm Beach designer Lilly Pulitzer was offering silk-screen prints on corduroy trousers and also experimenting with designs for boldly flowered...underwear! The trends in menswear were now changing so rapidly, many of the big department stores began to realise that they could no longer afford to order their stock 6 months in advance, at the time that this issue went to print several of the most prominent retailers had found themselves with a glut of Nehru jackets on their hands as the style suddenly began to wither!!! An interesting article,worth picking up a copy for the rest of the details if you are in any way interested in menswear from this period, you should be able to find an issue on Ebay eventually, until then I'll leave with some of my favourite quotes from the piece...

Oleg Cassini: I'm an outdoor man with an indoor look. I look like a villain, a bird of prey..I was probably the first hippie"

Bill Blass: "I am convinced that, other than speech, there is no better way to express yourself than through clothes"

Hardy Amies: "Let's face it, The men's clothing industry-especially Savile Row-was caught napping. They were still thinking like eminent Victorians when all around them young men were in revolt" (recalling the explosion of mod fashion in London)

A Golden God: Millionaire Michael Butler, jet-set producer of "Hair," strikes a statuesque pose wearing his Tibetan saffron cloak

                                                  Sun Bright: Flowered Lilly Pulitzer jeans

Debonair: Designer Oleg Cassini wears his informal "International Cowboy Look."

In his Beverly Hills discotheque, called The Candy Store, hair stylist Gene Shacove takes to the dancefloor and sock's it to 'em with his three-button Napoleonic walking suit.

Double-breasted fashions, including such decorative items as a dangling medallion and blue turtleneck are popular items with notable sports such as Bill Russell of the champion Boston Celtics.

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            (all images scanned  by Sweet Jane from Newsweek Magazine 25th November 1968)