The Flower Children of the 1960s

Did you know that over 500,000 men and women attended the music and arts festival called Woodstock ? Countless numbers of Hippies attended the festival because the hippie movement was just beginning in 1960’s . This unique group of people participated in activities such as going to festivals, dressed in a way that went against the mainstream, and had very different personalities.

Being a hippie was more than just a fashion statement it was a new way of life that was introduced in the 60’s. Some major changes in the 60s was the uses of drugs such as Marijuana and LSD used by the hippies. Along with the drug use that hippies commonly used was the new fashion trends. All of the sudden young men started to grow beards, and let their hair grow down past their shoulders. Then women started dressing in Psychedelic colors and were dressing in ways nobody ever has seen. Then once the crazy astounding hippie style emerged men and women started to wear bell bottom jeans, tie dye shirts, headbands, and sandals. At times men and women would even go barefoot, some women would even go braless! Some other hippie styles that were common were fringed buckskins, vests, caftans, mexican peasant blouses and gypsy style skirts was what most women commonly dressed like. Although for other conservative hippie styles there was more of a lounging type of style such as men and women wearing pajamas with a tunic top of some sort.

Hippies also has a different perspective of music and they enjoyed many of the artists that regular men and women did not. Hippies also enjoyed regular music too such as the Beatles. One thing that comes to mind when i think of 60s music is the british invasion of music. The british music groups had great success in the U.S. in the ...

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... acid trips was a constant problem but it all ended up to work out just fine. It may not have been fine without the help of volunteers from within the audience was able to acquire medical help, food and all other sorts of help needed due to overcrowding and severe weather. Woodstock was a symbol of everything good about the hippie movement and it showed what they were about even though it was short lived. The whole event was captured on film by one man that lasted twenty one hours, but was cut down to a three and a half hour documentary.

The Hippie movement may have been short lived but they lived their lives in fun, they tended to use drugs, and they enjoyed going to festivals such as Woodstock. The hippies was a once and a lifetime movement that our world may never experience again. Now you can see why 500,00 hippies attended the Woodstock music and arts festival.