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1960s fancy dress costume ideas

• Psychedelic clothes - bright colours, patterned prints, geometric shapes
• Mini skirts
• Hippy outfits - bell bottoms, floor length skirts/dresses
• The no-bra look
• The Shift dress
• The Mod look or Chelsea look
• Hair - big hair, long hair, bandanas, afros
• Turtle neck sweaters
• Tie dye tshirts
• Surfer or surfer chick
• Space Age clothes - vinyls, synthetics
• Hot pants (super short shorts)
• Accessories - big sun glasses, large plastic bangles and earrings, flower wreaths and necklaces
• Shoes - platform shoes, knee high go-go boots, sandals
• Misc: Peace signs, 'No War' slogans, flowers, incense, sitars, smiley faces

Famous people and characters from the 1960s you could imitate:

• The Beatles
  • John Lennon
  • Paul McCartney
  • Ringo Starr
  • George Harrison
    　
• Neil Armstrong
• Twiggy
• Jim Morrison
• Diana Ross (the Supremes)
• Bob Dylan
• Mick Jagger
• Brigitte Bardot
• Audrey Hepburn (60's style)
• Andy Warhol
• Janis Joplin
• Martin Luther King
• Russian spies vs American spies (cold war happened in the 60s)
• Malcolm X
• Mao Tse-Tung or a Chinese revolutionary/ communist
• Nelson Mandela
• Harold Hot (Australian PM who disappeared after going for a swim at the beach)
• Dr Who (William Hartnell or Patrick Tauton)
• The Avengers
• Characters from Star Trek (original series started in 1966)
• West side story characters
• Laurence of Arabia
• Characters from The Sound of Music
• James Bond (Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
  　

Music - imitate the following bands
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Byrds, Led Zeppelin, Beach Boys, Temptations, Bee Gees, Simon and Art Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Mamas and Papas, Monkees, The Supremes.

Dance
The Twist

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