When you think about it, the fashion revolution of the late '60s has had amazing staying power. Take the miniskirt. Though we're seeing longer hemlines for spring, the mini also held its own when designers as varied as Calvin Klein, Chanel and Dolce & Gabbana presented their spring 2011 collections on runways last fall.
Ditto that office staple, the women's pantsuit. Front and center for this spring season, it was Stella McCartney's first look out on the catwalk and the second at Thakoon. Trouser suits were also aggressively rebooted at Haider Ackermann, coolly provocative at Oliver Theyskens' Theory and all silky-slouchy at Bottega Veneta.
On the men's side, the Milan fall season shows in January kicked off with Burberry's kaleidoscope of orange, yellow and chartreuse, a palette straight out of the period. For power brokers, all it takes is a lush wide necktie — a staple of posh lines like Tom Ford and Polo/Ralph Lauren Purple Label — to signal that alpha combination of authority and luxury.
And for both sexes, though silhouettes swing wide some seasons and skinny down the next, the boot-cut jean (rooted in, yes, the bell bottom of the late '60s and early '70s) will never be out of style. In fact, the bell bottom itself is expected to be a popular wardrobe choice this spring.
So maybe it's worth speculating a bit about the '60s-era television show — "Mad Men" — that's been a major influence on much recent fashion. At the end of last season, the series closed the door on the first half of the decade, ending in late 1965.
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