trackie combos – became popular, the backlash in fashion circles reminded me of a mother safeguarding her young. “Comfort! It’s so over-rated.
What about elegance?” said Bella Freud at the time. It’s no coincidence that the corset was revived a year or two later. In many ways, the battle was artificial.
It’s not as if women were compelled to wear waist cinchers, heels, Wonderbras or any of the other discomforting, body transforming items that regularly stormed in and out of fashion.
One of the beneficial legacies of the '60s was the end of mono-fashion.By the mid to late 70s you could be a prairie girl, a punk or a Bowie acolyte.
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