I suppose being a child of the Swinging Sixties, I can't say I remember too much about it. I suppose my earliest recollections start around 1965/1966. Nancy Sinatra was singing 'These Boots Were Made For Walking', and plastic was very much in evidence as not only a way to make 'Modern' furniture, but very much in fashion for clothing and footwear.
It was undeniably an exciting era for not only flower power, but also people expressing peace and love, and moreover a willingness to express themselves with clothing. Almost nothing was off-limits.
Crotch Length Patent Boots with flat heels and over the knee boots became very much the 'thing' to wear. Fashion designers went head first into this plastic era, with big name fashion models flaunting their stuff up and down the fashion worlds catwalks.
Here's a collection of pictures from this era..I hope you like them as much as I do.
3 comments:
Back in about 1970 or so I was walking in Central Park and I saw a couple arm and arm.. she had a great figure and and hair and face and came right up on my radar...
But the cool thing was she was wearing plastic stretch boot pants... and they went right the way up to her waist! And they were shiny as an auto body! WOW.
I few weeks later I actually saw them on mannequin in a shoe shop window and I think I bought them for my ex... whom I've tried to forget so maybe this is a flawed memory...
But not the boots!
This era was definatly big in thigh and also crotch boots (first time these were fashionable?) but the foot and heel style never have been my cup of tea. Chacun à son goût!
Absolutely... the tall spike heel with a pointed toe is the only way to travel.. of course at the bottom of a thigh high or crotch boot skin tight upper.
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