Hippies acted and dressed differently to be different, but in the end they ended up the same didn't they?
2006-08-29 12:11:18 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah, I noticed that too. Hippie culture was formed to fight 50's conformity. As hippie culture swelled in popularity, people began conforming to it as well, Kinda ironic.
2006-08-29 12:23:54 · answer #1 · answered by Yah 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being a Hippy wasn't about the clothes you wore. Being a hippy was an attitude. It involved a political and moral overthrow of the status quo. Young people were really pissed off at politics, government, laws, and their parents style of living which was perceived as being hypocritical. The Vietnam war was going on along with the Civil Rights Movement. Blacks were being beaten, bit by police dog, and hosed down with fire hoses while peacefully protesting. There were riots on college campuses. The war protests that you have seen on TV now protesting the Iraq war represent just a fraction of the type of protesting that went on in the 60's and 70's.
The hippies were trying to look different from their parents and the status quo. They were not trying to look different from one another. Their hair, their clothes, their beads were their own unique self identifying uniform.
I was a in middle school at the time.........I can't put it into words. It was an attitude and feeling that permeated the times..........it went beyond the "threads", it was a movement, a revolt.
2006-08-29 12:30:41 · answer #2 · answered by Barbara M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hippy movement was born from conflict, a rebellion of youth against the concept of conscription to the armed forces.... Vietnam. After the cessation of the conflict and therefore no longer any need for such "rebellion", the movement slowly became absorbed back into the general run of social behaviour. Sadly so, as the concepts achieved such as "Peace, Love, Freedom, Happiness" were valid whether in time of conflict or not. The movement espoused greater natural understanding and envirnmental consciousness, something lacking today amongst all youth worldwide......... I, for one, wish the beliefs had remained even if the appearance changed.
2006-08-29 12:24:35 · answer #3 · answered by watchall_98 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Hadn't noticed that...
I think that Republicans were far more identical to eachother in the 60's....
Now the Republicans look like Hippies because they can buy bell-bottoms and faded tie die at the GAP and Abercrombie...
Hippie is now a state of mind that you won't find anywhere near a mall, no matter what you wear...
Oh, by the way - I love your Avatar... because we really don't seem very silly talking about conformity when we all look like Cartoons...
2006-08-29 12:22:14 · answer #4 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The hippy movement was something completely different than you are implying. They were not "into" their outfits like it was some sort of fashion image thing...Not like the new emo kids that are running around thinking they are being different.
They had tuned in (to the mother godess, to the earthsong) turned on (to the drugs) and droped out (of society)
I may be a little defensive, being a child of hippies...
Like the above posters, I would like to repeat that they hippy movement was a political one...
That s*$t was really happening...This was a time of revolt and upheaval....
2006-08-29 12:36:25 · answer #5 · answered by tui 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hippies are not defined by clothing, but by attitudes. They are free-spirited and have a bright outlook on life. Hippies care about the world instead of trying to ruin it. A hippie embraces life to the fullest by promoting peace, love and happiness, but they will stand up for their beliefs.
most dress in clothing that is comfortable, or like me...they design their own.
2006-08-29 12:18:53 · answer #6 · answered by Voodoo Experience 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was and am a hippy and I have noticed that people hate anything that is different than what they think is normal. I have noticed this constantly since 1965 and I didn't care then that you hate what I wear or what I think because I know it doesn't matter what you think. Do you need proof?
2006-08-29 12:21:18 · answer #7 · answered by Marcus R. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, ok, care to pick on the suffragettes next? What difference does it make to you how hippies dressed?
2006-08-29 12:16:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah... I like hippies for what they stand for but i still think it's stupid to do something just to be different- and they ended up following a trend anyway.
2006-08-29 12:14:30 · answer #9 · answered by Blondie 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
yeah, like all trends ...
but if i lived in the 60s .. i think i'd wanna be a hippy ... all that peace and love sounds pretty good to me
2006-08-29 12:18:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋