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High School Fashion, 1969

What a trip.

Wow these photos are stunning

Some of these outfits are the raddest things I’ve ever seen.

Can we talk about the tights.

The existence of photos like these (and similar photos from the 70s and 80s and so on) makes me wonder yet again why current-day movies set in this time never seem to be able to get the hair and clothing right.

Because costume designers will usually interperate historical fashions through a contemporary lens. Any period piece is going to be as much of a comentary on our current asethetic preferences as it is an exploration of the past.

^^

This is why we get things like the Red Dress™ in Outlander which looks stunning to modern eyes but a woman from that period wouldn’t be caught dead in (it’s far far too simple, no woman would wear a non patterned dress) or Emma Watson thinking that her character wouldn’t were proper underthings with a ball gown.

Yeah, the Outlander dress is my go-to for explaining this phenomenon. It is beautiful and well-made, but when you look at surviving examples of dresses in that style, they’re laden with beadwork and goldwork and all other manner of ornament. It was a status symbol—you either had the leisure time to develop that skill and do it yourself, or you had the money to drop for someone else to do it.

To modern eyes, those dresses look obscenely gaudy. To contemporary eyes, the Outlander dress would be highly eccentric, because no one would go to the trouble and expense of making that style of dress look so plain.