Image Gallery
Images representing the fashion trends of the 1970s.
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The early 1970s' fashions were a continuation of the hippie look from the late 1960s.
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Woman in miniskirt, 1970
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A West German school girl with Schultüte in 1970, with a ‘hippyish’ outfit on.
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Swedish jewelry designer Efva Attling and Lars Jacob in Kings Road, London, 1971. She is wearing a "midi" dress.
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Fashion models in Leipzig, GDR, 1972. One of the girls is modelling a "maxi" dress.
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David Bowie in early 1970s. His avante-garde style of dressing exerted a strong influence on fashion in the first half of the decade.
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American First Lady Pat Nixon wears a shirt with the wide collar that was popular until the final years of the decade.
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Girl in 1973 with a "flicked" hairstyle.
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Los Angeles high school students, 1973. The tousled, blond surfer hair was popular for young men in southern California.
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Young woman wearing a 1930s-style dress and platform shoes, 1973.
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Singer Billy Preston in 1974 wearing an Afro hairstyle.
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Teenage girl in 1974 dressed in glam rock-inspired clothes. She wears a red sequined tube top, gold lamé jacket, and her black velvet skirt comes from a vintage clothing shop.
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American casual attire, 1974.
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British girls in 1975 in flared jeans
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British singer Rod Stewart, 1976.
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English girl in the mid-1970s wearing a wide-sleeved shirt, belted at the waist.
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Man in wide-legged jeans, 1977.
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Off-the-shoulder peasant dresses with tiered skirts, such as this one shown here, were worn in 1977.
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Young woman in a rayon wrap dress, 1977.
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Two punks from the late 1970s
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Debbie Harry of Blondie in 1977. A female punk icon, her dyed platinum blonde hair was widely copied by teenage girls and young women in Britain and America.
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In 1979, there was a 1940s influence in women's fashions. The woman in the photo wears a belted dress, bloused at the chest, and a pair of ankle-strapped shoes
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Silk scarves were popular fashion accessories for women in the 1970s.
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Singer Barry Manilow wears his hair longish in the soft, layered style favoured by men in the 1970s.
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By the end of the decade, straight-legged jeans were in fashion. They were often worn cuffed, as seen in this photo.
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Punk pioneer Lene Lovich in 1979, with her trademark long plaited hair.
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Alan Bennett in 1973, wearing a wide necktie
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