1969-"Three days of peace and music" (Woodstock Festival)
Now that sounds good in this day and age that we find ourselves living in. Don't the folks who experienced this music festival in the body or out of body sometimes want to re feel it once again? The music, the love, the joy, the peace. Well...one could indulge in the many separate activities that happened then or one could "pretend" or put on a hippie face, so to speak. Or one could precisely don themselves with a Woodstock Costume and relive Woodstock all over again in a groovy kind of way.
Hippy Clothes
Like Chris Farley in Saturday Night Live:"remember when".
Remember when Jimi Hendrix played his left handed guitar with a vengeance and he made love to it? Remember when Country Joe got the crowd to sing along with him, "were all gonna die"? Remember when Joe Cocker rambled on stage in his own eclectic way, "getting by with a petite help from my friends"? There is nothing like music to stir the senses and there are few things that can assess to a full 3 days of music with all of your friends, dancing and singing together in peaceful celebration. Those 3 days can be relived once again by precisely putting on some apparel or costume that can bring you back again to the town of Bethel, New York.
Halloween is fast approaching and the reminiscing can begin as you put together some ideas of what to wear.
The new century has cycled again and brought the look of vintage Hippie attire back to us. I don't know if it is a new fad or one that has held it's ground, but I see Woodstock attire being worn and sold in our community in any place I look. There are shops and shop that are selling colorful, psychedelic and loose clothing just like they wore in the sixties. Is the feeling of relaxation and revolution returning to our culture?
My youngest daughter revealed to me a few years back that there is a revival of Hippie clothing when she began wearing Hippie type apparel regularly. When I asked her where she buys her clothes she told me she bought them from a store at the local mall. Not long after I passed by the store and sure as heck, it was a type of vintage Hippie apparel store.
I need not wonder any longer.
Woodstock Costumes