HIPPIES (VERY NICE)

ORIGINS

• Youth movement

• Early 1960’s

• Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco

FASHION

• Unusual styles

• Brightly colored clothing

• Bell bottom pants, vests, tie-dye garments, peasant blouses, and long, full skirts

LIFESTYLE

• Dissenting group

• Back to nature

• Nomadic

EXPANSION OF CULTURE

• SUMMER OF LOVE (1967):
• Unprecedented gathering of as many as 100,000 young people
• Phenomenon of cultural and political rebellion
• Free food, free drugs and free love

• WOODSTOCK (1969):
• Over 500.000 people
• One of the greatest moments in popular music
• Unique and legendary
• Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who among others

DRUGS

• Consider it pleasurable and benign

• Cannabis – LSD

• 1966: LSD illegal in California

• Love Pageant Rally

POLITICS

• Non-violent demonstrations

• Civil rights marches

• Anti-Vietnam demonstrations

LEGACY

• Way of live
• Natural resources
• Religious and cultural diversity
• Wide range of personal appearence options and clothing styles