The 1960s saw a revolution in fashion that was born of youth rebellion in the streets, and trickled up into the top fashion houses. Defying easy definition, hippie fashion expressed a personal style with clothing that went against everything about the previous generation's notion of matching suits or ladylike ensembles.

"Revisits a particular cultural moment, the late 1960s and early 1970s in America and Europe, to trace hippies' revolutionary influence on fashion."--P. 7.