1. Jennyfer Tapia Apparel Merchandising And Design Spring 2O12

2. 1970’s
- Can You Dig It' Do you understand? " Can you dig it man?“ - 'fab' same as fabulous. ex: "that movie was fab

3. Events - First Earth Day celebrated
-The US and the UK lowers the voting age to 18 from 21

4. Movies/Music -The Exorcist (1973) -Rocky (1976) -Jaws (1975)
-The Godfather (1972), The Godfather 2(1974)
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Imagine - John Lennon
Let It Be - The Beatles

5. Diane von Fürstenberg- Fashion Designer , influenced the wrap dress.
Influenced Fashion
David Bowie - Singer
Diane von Fürstenberg- Fashion Designer , influenced the wrap dress.
Yves St Laurent -introduced the peasant look in 1976, and it became very influential. Skirts were gathered into tiers and shoulder lines dropped

6. 1970’s Fashion
Halston -created almost every popular dress seen on the dance floors. Bob Gibb -Mixing prints, textures, and embellishments with ethnic, medieval, and romantic influences, Gibb was a tremendous perpetuator of the "hippie" styles

7. Silhoutte
The Mid 1970’s - The 70′s silhouette was a mix of all previous decades but with small changes such as ruffled edges or puffed cuffs. Punks were first seen in the 70′s, and a lot of people were also into ‘disco’ fashion.

8. Trends .
afros even on white people VERY colorful Big sunglasses shoes that added 5 inches to your height bell bottom pants and tie-dyed shirts, girls wore their hair long and straight, usually parted down the middle with no bangs

9. Textiles
Most textiles used in the 1970’s were polyester. tapestry and curtain fabrics were also used.

10. Popular Colors
Gold, Purple, Yellow, Red, Loud Prints, and lots of clashing with the colors

11. Tye Dye Shirts were populer in this time , and they were later reapeated in the 2000’s
Mini skirts were also popular in this time period , and were later repeated in the 2000’s as well.