Peacock Revolution: American Masculine Identity and Dress in the Sixties and Seventies
The Peacock Revolution in menswear of the 1960s came as a profound shock to much of America. Men's long hair and vividly colored, sexualized clothes challenged long established traditions of masculine identity. Peacock Revolution is an in-depth study of how radical changes in men's clothing reflected, and contributed to, the changing ideas of American manhood initiated by a 'youthquake' of rebellious baby boomers coming of age in an era of social revolutions.

Featuring a detailed examination of the diverse socio-cultural and socio-political movements of the era, the book examines how those dissents and advocacies influenced the youthquake generation's choices in dress and ideas of masculinity. Daniel Delis Hill provides a thorough chronicle of the peacock fashions of the time, beginning with the mod looks of the British Invasion in the early 1960s, through the counterculture street styles and the mass-market trends they inspired, and concluding with the dress-for-success menswear revivals of the 1970s Me-Decade.
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Peacock Revolution: American Masculine Identity and Dress in the Sixties and Seventies
The Peacock Revolution in menswear of the 1960s came as a profound shock to much of America. Men's long hair and vividly colored, sexualized clothes challenged long established traditions of masculine identity. Peacock Revolution is an in-depth study of how radical changes in men's clothing reflected, and contributed to, the changing ideas of American manhood initiated by a 'youthquake' of rebellious baby boomers coming of age in an era of social revolutions.

Featuring a detailed examination of the diverse socio-cultural and socio-political movements of the era, the book examines how those dissents and advocacies influenced the youthquake generation's choices in dress and ideas of masculinity. Daniel Delis Hill provides a thorough chronicle of the peacock fashions of the time, beginning with the mod looks of the British Invasion in the early 1960s, through the counterculture street styles and the mass-market trends they inspired, and concluding with the dress-for-success menswear revivals of the 1970s Me-Decade.
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Peacock Revolution: American Masculine Identity and Dress in the Sixties and Seventies

Peacock Revolution: American Masculine Identity and Dress in the Sixties and Seventies

by Daniel Delis Hill
Peacock Revolution: American Masculine Identity and Dress in the Sixties and Seventies

Peacock Revolution: American Masculine Identity and Dress in the Sixties and Seventies

by Daniel Delis Hill

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The Peacock Revolution in menswear of the 1960s came as a profound shock to much of America. Men's long hair and vividly colored, sexualized clothes challenged long established traditions of masculine identity. Peacock Revolution is an in-depth study of how radical changes in men's clothing reflected, and contributed to, the changing ideas of American manhood initiated by a 'youthquake' of rebellious baby boomers coming of age in an era of social revolutions.

Featuring a detailed examination of the diverse socio-cultural and socio-political movements of the era, the book examines how those dissents and advocacies influenced the youthquake generation's choices in dress and ideas of masculinity. Daniel Delis Hill provides a thorough chronicle of the peacock fashions of the time, beginning with the mod looks of the British Invasion in the early 1960s, through the counterculture street styles and the mass-market trends they inspired, and concluding with the dress-for-success menswear revivals of the 1970s Me-Decade.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350056459
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 04/05/2018
Series: Dress and Fashion Research
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 232
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Daniel Delis Hill is a fashion historian and author of several books, including Fashion from Victoria to the New Millennium (2012) and American Menswear from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century (2011).
Daniel Delis Hill has worked as a retail fashion illustrator, catalog art director, and creative director of fashion photography. He also taught in the fashion departments of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, and the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio. He has written ten books on fashion and American popular culture, including Peacock Revolution: American Masculine Identity and Dress in the Sixties and Seventies, and Dress and Identity in America: The Baby Boom Years 1946-1964. In addition, he has written a number of essays for the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and American National Biography (Oxford University).

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. American Masculinity, Identity, and Dress 1800-1960
1. American Masculinity and the Postrevolution New Man
2. American Masculinity during the Second Industrial Revolution
3. Undermining Forces on American Masculinity
4. Crisis of Masculinity
5. American Masculine Identity in Dress before the Peacock Revolution
6. Individuality in Dress
7. Conclusion

II. New Masculine Identities in the Postwar Counterculture
1. The Beat Generation
2. Other Nonconformists of the 1950s
3. The Teenager as a New Demographic
4. Conclusion

III. Youthquake
1. The Generation Gap
2. Counterculture Movements
3. The Love Movement
4. Inchoate Movements
5. Hair Wars
6. The Sexual Revolution
7. Conclusion

IV. The Peacock Revolution
1. The JFK Transition
2. The Teddy Boys
3. The Mods
4. The British Invasion
5. Carnaby Street
6. The Peacock Revolution in America
7. The Gay Panic of the Peacock Revolution
8. A New Notion of Fashion for Men
9. Suit Innovations and Revivals 1960–1975
10. Informality in Suiting 1960–1972
11. Peacock Splendor
12. Unisex
13. Sexual Exhibitionism
14. Fashion from the Street
15. Protest Tribal Dress and Identities
16. Multicultural Influences on the Peacock Revolution
17. Black Power and Black Identity in Dress
18. Peacock Revolution Accessories
19. Thermidor of the Peacock Revolution 1972–1975
20. Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
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