1970 Fashion History

This set of fashion history pages looks at pictures of women's skirt and jacket designs of 1974 fashions. The women's fashion pictures in the main chart all enlarge to A4 size when clicked.

This fashion image far right captures so much of the 1974 fashion era. The jacket is short and bomber jacket style with a tab front waistband. The sleeves are cuffed and the jacket is worn with an open neck shirt. The trousers are full flared and were called flares. The whole look screams mid 1970s in general and the year 1974 in particular. Both emerald and bottle green were popular colours of the 1970s along with rust, wine red, purple, orange and brown.

In the 1974 skirt image right you can see how complex the fashionable collar had become and how boots were an essential way to wear an outfit. In this fashion history image the boots have been teamed with what became a mass fashion - a cut on the cross diagonal check A-line above the knee skirt probably made up in Courtelle jersey knit fabric or Terylene.