1970's

At the beginning of the 1970's it started off continuing from the 1960's hippie style. although this soon changed as hot pants, wide leg jeans and platform shoes suddenly came in. 

One of the main influences of the fashion of this era was from the film 'Saturday night fever' starring John Travolta. From this the 'Disco look' emerged and people were soon wearing 3 piece suits for men and jersey wrap dresses for women. 

Some of the other trends seen in the 1970s are high-waisted, flared satin trousers or denims decorated with rhinestones, tight lurex halter tops and antique velvet dresses, satin hot pants, sequined bra tops, and occasionally ostrich- feather boas draped over shoulders, and turbans for headwear. 

Thrift shopping became popular, with the reemergence of the 1930s and 1940s look. Short imitation rabbit-fur jacket became fashionable, and make-up was garish and glittery, with eyebrows thinly plucked.

A few of the other fashions donned in the 1970s include: baseball jerseys and custom t-shirts, leotards, one piece swimsuits, zippered jumpsuits for both men and women, wrap skirts and dresses of rayon, neck-scarves, polyester, double knitting, skin-tight, trousers, tube tops, and slit skirts, silk blouses, spaghetti-strapped tank tops and shirt-waist dresses were also worn. In addition to platforms, “women's shoes echoed the 1940s, with high-heeled lower-platform mules. Disco began to decline late in the decade and replaced with designer jeans styled by straight, cigarette-legs, and painters' pants.

By the end of this decade the 'Disco look' was overrun by the punk scene. 

Vivenne Westwood was one of the original designers who began the punk fashion movement.

It began in the United Kingdom and quickly spread to Europe. Punk’s manifesto is creation through disorder. Safety pins became nose and ear jewelry, rubber fetish wear was subverted to become daywear, and images of mass murderers, rapists, and criminals were elevated to iconographic status.

 Some other influences of punk fashion are the Sex Pistols and Andy Warhol, and brands such as Velvet Underground. 

Key elements of punk are ripped jeans, torn t-shirts, scrappy haircuts, worn and torn leather jackets, filthy tennis-shoes, or pointy beatle boots.

 Ultimately, to be punk you should have a “thrown together poverty look.”