1970s in Fashion - Image Gallery

Image Gallery

Images representing the fashion trends of the 1970s.

• The early 1970s' fashions were a continuation of the hippie look from the late 1960s.

• Woman in miniskirt, 1970

• A West German school girl with Schultüte in 1970, with a ‘hippyish’ outfit on.

• Swedish jewelry designer Efva Attling and Lars Jacob in Kings Road, London, 1971. She is wearing a "midi" dress.

• Fashion models in Leipzig, GDR, 1972. One of the girls is modelling a "maxi" dress.

• David Bowie in early 1970s. His avante-garde style of dressing exerted a strong influence on fashion in the first half of the decade.

• American First Lady Pat Nixon wears a shirt with the wide collar that was popular until the final years of the decade.

• Girl in 1973 with a "flicked" hairstyle.

• Los Angeles high school students, 1973. The tousled, blond surfer hair was popular for young men in southern California.

• Young woman wearing a 1930s-style dress and platform shoes, 1973.

• Singer Billy Preston in 1974 wearing an Afro hairstyle.

• Teenage girl in 1974 dressed in glam rock-inspired clothes. She wears a red sequined tube top, gold lamé jacket, and her black velvet skirt comes from a vintage clothing shop.

• American casual attire, 1974.

• British girls in 1975 in flared jeans

• British singer Rod Stewart, 1976.

• English girl in the mid-1970s wearing a wide-sleeved shirt, belted at the waist.

• Man in wide-legged jeans, 1977.

• Off-the-shoulder peasant dresses with tiered skirts, such as this one shown here, were worn in 1977.

• Young woman in a rayon wrap dress, 1977.

• Two punks from the late 1970s

• Debbie Harry of Blondie in 1977. A female punk icon, her dyed platinum blonde hair was widely copied by teenage girls and young women in Britain and America.

• In 1979, there was a 1940s influence in women's fashions. The woman in the photo wears a belted dress, bloused at the chest, and a pair of ankle-strapped shoes

• Silk scarves were popular fashion accessories for women in the 1970s.

• Singer Barry Manilow wears his hair longish in the soft, layered style favoured by men in the 1970s.

• By the end of the decade, straight-legged jeans were in fashion. They were often worn cuffed, as seen in this photo.

• Punk pioneer Lene Lovich in 1979, with her trademark long plaited hair.

• Alan Bennett in 1973, wearing a wide necktie