The Shift Dress

The sixties was the catalyst for life as we know it today. Each aspect of the sixties is a piece of a hypothetical jigsaw that all fits together to form our modern way of life. Even something as small as the shift dress helped change our lives for the better.

 This image shows some shift dresses designed by Mary Quant. Shift dresses were the major development in fashion since the 1920's, testing attitudes towards women's equality and sexuality. Dresses and skirts became shorter as the decade progressed. This followed the release of the contraceptive pill which enabled women to control pregnancy like they never could have before; This ultimately resulting in Free Love and eventually the hippie movement in the later years of the decade.Women started exercising their right for equality by defying social convention any chance they got, from not wearing bras to more literal protest techniques such as tying themselves to fences.

Without these acts it is hard to believe that women would have the same rights as men even today.