Who likes Mod Fashions
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MOD was a term used to identify a young part of the British population in the late 1950s and 60s. There were 2 factions the MODS and ROCKERS. Mods were more apt to follow the fashion scene and mini skirts became traditional with mod scooter styled clothes back then. Rockers were the rebels in leather (rather like Brando in the 50s). The two groups did riot with one another...very West Side Story!!!
I just went to Wikapedia and there was a good definition there
Mods and Rockers
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The Mods and the Rockers were two British youth movements of the early 1960s. Gangs of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth. They can be seen as a type of folk devil.
The Rockers adopted a macho biker gang image, tending to wear such clothes as black leather jackets. The Mods adopted a pose of scooter-driving sophistication. It was believed that Mods were cleaner and tidier than Rockers. They often wore colourful clothes considered outrageous by the standards of the time.
Rockers – with leather jackets and heavy motorcycles – poured scorn on the Mods. For Rockers, Mods were weedy, effeminate snobs. Mods saw Rockers as out of touch, oafish and grubby. Mods were usually city dwellers, whereas Rockers tended to be more rural. Mods held down office jobs, whereas Rockers were manual workers. Musically, there was no common ground, with the Rockers clinging to 1950s Rock and Roll like Elvis and Gene Vincent. Mods favoured 1960s soul, RnB and Ska. Rockers rebelled from without, whereas Mods rebelled from within. Rockers looked like trouble, but most Mods looked like presentable, if rather arrogant, young chaps.
Fights occurred where territories overlapped or rival factions happened upon each other. Mods sometimes sewed fish hooks into the backs of their lapels to shred the fingers of manhandling assailants. Weapons were often in evidence – coshes and flick knives being favoured.
some more info....
Developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Mods and The Rockers were two groups that were closely related to the work of author S.E. Hinton who wrote the novel, "The Outsiders". Each group represented opposite tastes with regard to a number of social conventions such as clothing, grooming, music, and so on.
here is a very good link to go visit about all this
MODS & ROCKERS history
I just went to Wikapedia and there was a good definition there
Mods and Rockers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
The Mods and the Rockers were two British youth movements of the early 1960s. Gangs of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth. They can be seen as a type of folk devil.
The Rockers adopted a macho biker gang image, tending to wear such clothes as black leather jackets. The Mods adopted a pose of scooter-driving sophistication. It was believed that Mods were cleaner and tidier than Rockers. They often wore colourful clothes considered outrageous by the standards of the time.
Rockers – with leather jackets and heavy motorcycles – poured scorn on the Mods. For Rockers, Mods were weedy, effeminate snobs. Mods saw Rockers as out of touch, oafish and grubby. Mods were usually city dwellers, whereas Rockers tended to be more rural. Mods held down office jobs, whereas Rockers were manual workers. Musically, there was no common ground, with the Rockers clinging to 1950s Rock and Roll like Elvis and Gene Vincent. Mods favoured 1960s soul, RnB and Ska. Rockers rebelled from without, whereas Mods rebelled from within. Rockers looked like trouble, but most Mods looked like presentable, if rather arrogant, young chaps.
Fights occurred where territories overlapped or rival factions happened upon each other. Mods sometimes sewed fish hooks into the backs of their lapels to shred the fingers of manhandling assailants. Weapons were often in evidence – coshes and flick knives being favoured.
some more info....
Developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Mods and The Rockers were two groups that were closely related to the work of author S.E. Hinton who wrote the novel, "The Outsiders". Each group represented opposite tastes with regard to a number of social conventions such as clothing, grooming, music, and so on.
here is a very good link to go visit about all this
MODS & ROCKERS history
Hattysattic
VFG Secretary
I do! (*waves hand*).. and I think the lovely Senti certainly does, as well as being all very knowledgable about it: you can read her workshop on trends of the mid sixties that she did here a while back (and I refer to quite often!)
http://www.vintagefashionguild.org/public/viewthread.php?tid=2664
http://www.vintagefashionguild.org/public/viewthread.php?tid=2664
Senti is defintely the Queen of MOD here on the VFG!
Fab postings!
Fab postings!
fuzzylizzie
Alumni
I LOVE mod fashions. More about that later.
Definitely read Senti's workshop. I've never read a better description of the complete mod scene. She KNOWS mod!
I have a pitiful little short article on what Mod was on my website. Feel free to read it:
My take on Mod
Okay back to my original statement; I love mod fashions. I was 10 when Mod hit the US in a big way, and by the time the fashion filtered down to my little rural town, the fashion world had moved on. So as a kid, I never really dressed Mod. (However, bits of what passed for Mod continued to hang on in the US. The girls in the Brady Bunch, which started in 69 dress very Mod for the first years.) Bu the time I was choosing my own clothes, I was more into Janis Joplin than early Twiggy.
But I did LOVE how the girls in the Beatles movies looked so cool, and was definitely influenced by what I saw. A lot of the way I have dressed as an adult shows this; I love the boots, the poor boy sweaters, the short skirts with tights. Until recently, I had never worn a skirt below my knees, but I've discovered the joys of 50s novelty prints...
A lot of my own collection is mod. I have a whole wardrobe of what a young woman would have worn on a trip to London in 1966 or 67, and I'm always looking for more great pieces. Really great examples are getting harder to find, as lots of people have gained an appreciate for this brief period.
Lizzie
Definitely read Senti's workshop. I've never read a better description of the complete mod scene. She KNOWS mod!
I have a pitiful little short article on what Mod was on my website. Feel free to read it:
My take on Mod
Okay back to my original statement; I love mod fashions. I was 10 when Mod hit the US in a big way, and by the time the fashion filtered down to my little rural town, the fashion world had moved on. So as a kid, I never really dressed Mod. (However, bits of what passed for Mod continued to hang on in the US. The girls in the Brady Bunch, which started in 69 dress very Mod for the first years.) Bu the time I was choosing my own clothes, I was more into Janis Joplin than early Twiggy.
But I did LOVE how the girls in the Beatles movies looked so cool, and was definitely influenced by what I saw. A lot of the way I have dressed as an adult shows this; I love the boots, the poor boy sweaters, the short skirts with tights. Until recently, I had never worn a skirt below my knees, but I've discovered the joys of 50s novelty prints...
A lot of my own collection is mod. I have a whole wardrobe of what a young woman would have worn on a trip to London in 1966 or 67, and I'm always looking for more great pieces. Really great examples are getting harder to find, as lots of people have gained an appreciate for this brief period.
Lizzie
pauline
Registered Guest
THICK THICK me! I need to do some joined up thinking, Thank you for all the links
I will follows these and do some reading up very soon and might apriciate the MOD era more. It will make a change from the 1920's.
Before I read what Senti's workshop and Lizzie page.
My opinion on MOD fashion now and I might find it wrong is that unlike other eras pre MOD the emphasis is more on the dress and accessories to create the style.
With Mod fashions it's more about using the style of clothes with hair/ makeup to produce a look more than a style.
That's why I have sort of put MOD fashions to one side as it's personally for me more difficult to visualize how everything would work together.That's just my take now!.
I will follows these and do some reading up very soon and might apriciate the MOD era more. It will make a change from the 1920's.Before I read what Senti's workshop and Lizzie page.
My opinion on MOD fashion now and I might find it wrong is that unlike other eras pre MOD the emphasis is more on the dress and accessories to create the style.
With Mod fashions it's more about using the style of clothes with hair/ makeup to produce a look more than a style.
That's why I have sort of put MOD fashions to one side as it's personally for me more difficult to visualize how everything would work together.That's just my take now!.
I adore mod stuff. I think it's partly because I've been a Who fan since I was a teenager, and partly because I love the design elements of the era. The colors are bold and the lines are very clean. I also love the freedom of a simple shift dress. My boyfriend loves that era as well, partly out of nostalgia and partly because of the high hemlines. ;)
It's not vintage, but Senti helped me find a wonderful mod-inspired dress by Dadadie Brucke. Here's a pic of me wearing it:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6023/dbpicfr0.jpg
(Actually, nothing in the outfit is vintage, sad to say! XD Still, don't let my expression fool you-- I love the dress!)
It's not vintage, but Senti helped me find a wonderful mod-inspired dress by Dadadie Brucke. Here's a pic of me wearing it:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6023/dbpicfr0.jpg
(Actually, nothing in the outfit is vintage, sad to say! XD Still, don't let my expression fool you-- I love the dress!)
fuzzylizzie
Alumni
Edgy, that is a great look for you!
Paul, to some extent, I guess you are right, though when you think about it the finished product is always a "look". Take a typical 50s outfit, with all the trimmings, and subtract just one piece (even a piece of the proper underwear!) and the look is just not there.
Perhaps because Mod began as a street style, and because the people who wore it best were so young, then it is more about how one looked than in other eras. Something to think about.
But please don't sell this stylistic period short. I know you are into the total styling of an outfit, and I can tell you it is just as much fun assembling the pieces of a Mod outfit as any other era (Speaking personally, of course!).
For example, take this cute Gerald McCann dress:
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/geraldmccann_001.jpg>
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/geraldmccann_002.jpg>
Add these shoes:
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/purpleblackshoes.jpg>
And these gloves:
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/modgloves.jpg>
And these sunglasses:
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/purplrsun.jpg>
And I'm on my way to a cute, if a bit over-done, Mod outfit. I actually started with the glasses, then found the dress (a real rarity in the States; the only McCann I've ever seen) and then the shoes...
Now I've got these, and should someday have an orange outfit to match!
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/orangemodshoes.jpg>
Lizzie
Paul, to some extent, I guess you are right, though when you think about it the finished product is always a "look". Take a typical 50s outfit, with all the trimmings, and subtract just one piece (even a piece of the proper underwear!) and the look is just not there.
Perhaps because Mod began as a street style, and because the people who wore it best were so young, then it is more about how one looked than in other eras. Something to think about.
But please don't sell this stylistic period short. I know you are into the total styling of an outfit, and I can tell you it is just as much fun assembling the pieces of a Mod outfit as any other era (Speaking personally, of course!).
For example, take this cute Gerald McCann dress:
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/geraldmccann_001.jpg>
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/geraldmccann_002.jpg>
Add these shoes:
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/purpleblackshoes.jpg>
And these gloves:
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/modgloves.jpg>
And these sunglasses:
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/purplrsun.jpg>
And I'm on my way to a cute, if a bit over-done, Mod outfit. I actually started with the glasses, then found the dress (a real rarity in the States; the only McCann I've ever seen) and then the shoes...
Now I've got these, and should someday have an orange outfit to match!
<img src=http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/fuzzylizzie/orangemodshoes.jpg>
Lizzie
pauline
Registered Guest
Thanks Lizzie for that insight.
I had been trying as I walked to and from the dentist to come up with a logical and reasoned explanation to why I have passed over the MOD look.
All I could come up was:-
That I do not have any dislike at all for the style except that for some reason that I find it very hard to visualise what I would look like wearing a typical MOD out fit, the same goes also for these new outfits ,
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if I had to make a choose between the to which would suite me the best I would be at a loss.
Strangely I do not have the some problem with other decades as you are less like to see them been worn today (apart form vintage fashions enthusiasts) and the reference are more theoretical, books and talking to others about what would go and been worn, and if you get it wrong you will get picked up on it in a nice way, and at the some time I am experiencing and learning about history and to a extent hiding behind the dress.
Compared to say seeing Edgy looking great wearing MOD, knowing she goes out today wearing that. I would not rule out a MOD outfit in my collection, but I feel I would need a lot more experience and guidance to get the right look. I know that might sound sight illogical for the ladies who do this sort of thing all day .Me with a mini dress /skirt !!!!.
I had been trying as I walked to and from the dentist to come up with a logical and reasoned explanation to why I have passed over the MOD look.
All I could come up was:-
That I do not have any dislike at all for the style except that for some reason that I find it very hard to visualise what I would look like wearing a typical MOD out fit, the same goes also for these new outfits ,
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if I had to make a choose between the to which would suite me the best I would be at a loss.
Strangely I do not have the some problem with other decades as you are less like to see them been worn today (apart form vintage fashions enthusiasts) and the reference are more theoretical, books and talking to others about what would go and been worn, and if you get it wrong you will get picked up on it in a nice way, and at the some time I am experiencing and learning about history and to a extent hiding behind the dress.
Compared to say seeing Edgy looking great wearing MOD, knowing she goes out today wearing that. I would not rule out a MOD outfit in my collection, but I feel I would need a lot more experience and guidance to get the right look. I know that might sound sight illogical for the ladies who do this sort of thing all day .Me with a mini dress /skirt !!!!.
thevintagebungalow
VFG Member
Paul,
I love the look of Mod. I don't know if I would ever wear it but it's fun to find the pieces. Right now it's really hit and miss for selling. I've noticed it slowing down considerably (just my humble opinion....).
Carrie
Hey Lizzie,
I love those orange shoes!! I have a dress listed that would match them perfectly. The dress might be a little too late 60's but I thought the colors were so close. Not a rare designer or anything, but fun.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...80018360350&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MESE:IT&rd=1
I love the look of Mod. I don't know if I would ever wear it but it's fun to find the pieces. Right now it's really hit and miss for selling. I've noticed it slowing down considerably (just my humble opinion....).
Carrie
Hey Lizzie,
I love those orange shoes!! I have a dress listed that would match them perfectly. The dress might be a little too late 60's but I thought the colors were so close. Not a rare designer or anything, but fun.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...80018360350&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MESE:IT&rd=1
emmapeelpants
Alumni
I LOVE that McCann dress - wow!!!!!
Liz
Liz