a deep dive into 1960s space age fashion ✨🛸 

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Okay, commenting now after watching... It's just amazing how much research you do and how passionate you are about fashion history. I dated a fashion designer for 10 years and my sister used to be the couture designer for Ralph Lauren, so I spent many years listening to people who are passionate about fashion, and it's truly a joy to listen to you. I know how much work you must've put into this, so thank you! :)

The future of the past is always fascinating

I love seeing this! People dont deep dive into 60s and 70s fashions like this because of how much new and unique things came from that time. Id love to see more dives into different corners of vintage/mid-century fashion! Or even like evolutions of fashion through a decade or "era" I just love how much you incorporated the cultural implications and influences of the time here and your "french pimple" video. I'll keep watching if you keep creating❤❤❤

OK but I genuinely adore this video, you put so much research and work into this and it was both informative and super fun. I have such a soft spot for this sort of fashion

You said to fell free, so GIRL YOUR MAKEUP IS WHERE MY EYES ARE GLUED. And earrings match it perfectly)

This was so good and informative 🫶🏼 I’m now simply brimming with inspiration 👩🏻‍🚀

When I was a little girl in San Antonio, Texas, our lunch ladies made a huge grayish meat ball with craters for the kids' lunch that day. It resembled the moon to celebrate the lunar landing. Also, I proudly wore a pair of girls silver go-go boots that week.

For me, definitely, this has become one instant favorite video essay! Awesome video! and the outfit is super cool. I love the earrings🤍, too; but the makeup is sooo good! 💙💙❤ This video prompted me so many ideas; it's very engaging and interesting. I really like that, while having an appreciation for fashion, you still have critical comments on it. Talking about science fiction is so fascinating because it reveals how not only history but also imagination is tied to its conditions of possibility, sometimes being even more revealing of ideologies than historical events. Utopia, a hyperbolization of current values; and dystopia, a hyperbolization of current anxieties. (also, I sense there is some colonial thinking on some of those narratives, aliens, settlement, discovery and conquest of another planet [land], tied to the gender elements). Thanks for your insights! very informative and well delivered!

“The accompanying helmets and goggles were more avant garde, not for an every day look”… okay but hear me out 🫣

Another very fun and interesting video. I love the editing and silly humor. Congrats on the style awards, super awesome

Babydoll and Retro Future are my favourite 60s fashion

Commenting before even watching, I'm so excited! I've watched 30 seconds and it has already made my day! :)

1. Great job! 2. CONGRATULATIONS on the virtual fashion show gig with the sponsor. 3. You have a repa list?😳 4. You would have made a great Batman villainess. 5. Makeup looks fab!

I feel too ugly to submit anything for the fashion show, but I do love to coordinate outfits...does it have to be mod style,or just an outfit we really like?

This and the medieval revival in the 60s are both some of the most interesting takes on fashion, especially for the 20th century

You’re so pretty! I love your fashion taste and you’re great at makeup. It’s fascinating looking into culture from past decades.

Amazing video! Retro futurism is my favourite 60s trend and this is the best video I’ve seen on the topic.

My favourite Fashion Era ❤ experimental yet practical. Pierre Cardin, Andre Courreges, Paco Rabanne... Love retrofuturism and how the idea of future is represented in every decade. Please watch the fantastic costume design for the Italian Sci-fi film "The 10th victim" by the iconic Sorelle Fontana, so underrated. I need s part 2

Even if Retro-Futurism as a concept is more or less complete bunk when it comes to speculating on the likely trajectory of the future, as an artistic motif it’s almost peerless. Some of my favorite pieces of media (e.g. Fallout, Batman the Animated Series, Thief) have tended to base their design elements around anachronistic futures that remain defined by the idioms and conventions of the eras from which they stem. If nothing else, it makes for a strong visual component, much like how Barbarella is only recalled with fondness due to its distinctly psychoactive envisioning of intergalactic life…alongside Jane Fonda’s scant sartorial sense in the picture.

Such a comprehensive and fun video! You really did your homework! Total slay! ❤❤❤❤❤ Would love to see 60s space age futurism and 90s/00s Y2K futurism make a comeback!

Great presentation 💪🏻

This was a great essay, very informative and well researched. Also perfect timing, as I'm incidentally working on a clothing mod for Fallout 4 right now.

This video is so, so good!! In high school and college I was well and truly obsessed with the Space Age aesthetic. Seeing your highly researched, thought-provoking and fun analysis of this era was delightful! [Edited for grammar]

Loved this video!! Cant wait for the next one!!

you're one of my favorite channels

I love the bonkers levels of costuming they get into with Star Trek. It reminds me of a blog I used to follow called Fashion It So, which covered the fashion of various TNG episodes.

this video is so delightful!

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Your prettiness is quite impressive!

Very smart & cool … I’m really a fan of the associated Mod fashion of 60’s London

OMG Instant like, I love this topic ❤

this video is excellent

An interesting delve into fashions which actually seem contemporary. I loved your look into the 60s B movies but unfortunately Attack of the 50 Foot Woman was made in 1958 so we'll never know how fashionable she was. I love your personality and your enthusiasm and could watch you present anything. I look forward to your films which are always well-researched.

いつもノスタルジックな映像素晴らしい🎉

Fashion history, love it

Fascinating. Do you happen to know if there is a name for the short standup collars you sometimes see with these space age fashions? Thank you. Like all the background history of the era you provide.

良い時代でした！

best way to shut down the Star Trek mini skirts were for sex appeal, is to point out that some of the males in the background wear them too.

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Love! Subscribed 🤍

I’d love to participate in the fashion show but my wardrobe is so boring lol 😅 great video though!

Can you please do a video explaining the hippie subculture? ❤

16:20 who made that photo??????????

I love retro futuristic styles and aesthetics so much, it’s so interesting seeing what people thought the future was going to be back then

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"And there's the television series The Twilight Zone, which is basically Black Mirror for Boomers" LOL

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DAAAAAH--LING....how did I not find you until TODAY?!? You are SUPER FAAAAAAAB--U--LOUS!! Sooooooooo...delighted to "discover" you!! So BRIGHT and SUCH a maaaarvelous fashion maven!! I ADORE U!! Luuuuuuuuuuved this examination of the GLORY of 1960's deeee--liciously "Space Age "/"Sci-fi" designs !!! 🤩 And indeed, how could we NOT mention Cardin and Rabanne and Quant, etc.!! Though I enjoy fashion of most types and styles of the last 100 years in particularly...the 60's!! Marvelous and so innovative! I have a number of outfits from the period! My mother was an artistic gorrrrrrrrrrgeous Italian woman that many compared physically to Sophia Loren! First time I ever saw a woman wearing gold lame' was on my mother in 1961...several years before such things began to enter into world fashion as known then to what is is now! I fell maaaaadly in love with it, and would try it one when she was at work (YES...quite "enabling" for a woman of that era!!) in a VERY chic uptown North Side beauty salon in Chicago!--I would sneak into her closet and try it ON! Ohh...Heavenly! Was my FIRST introduction for ME to become a crossdresser... which became a "calling" for me and have been dedicated to for the last 40 years!!! I LUV IT!!! And THRILLED you mentioned the wild UFO, the legendary "Barbarella", the delicious "Forbidden Planet", and MOST of all, the FAR underseen"Flight To Mars" ! LOVED the dresses... and YES--I have TWO custom created duplicates down for me...one accurately and precisely like the one in the film in satin...and another in GLORRRRIOUS Latex--which is the "futuristic material of the 21st Century! It is SOOO glorious to wear...nothing else quite like it! TRY it some day yourself! One used to it--you'll adore it! And yes Thieery Mugler and Versace brought it into high fashion--thank goodness! The "NEW" space age materials, not just for fetishist--but I'll wear that as well. And of COURSE the magical leathers that have arrived in the last 30-ish years! Daaaah-ling...we simply MUST talk much MUCH more! PLEASE forgive my delay in finding you! SO much in common! And shall be watching your videos and shorts as quickly and often as I can! YOU my dear--ROCK!! HUGE hugs to you! 🤩 Shall find you on Instagram, girlfriend!! OODLES to share there as well! Aaaaand, I can ever discover ME! I'l worth it! Haa! 😎 instagram.com/veemichaelsphoto/

Useless trivia: The "UFO" series was the main inspiration for the 90s-era X-Com game franchise - unfortunately, the purple wigs and slinky uniforms didn't carry-over.