A group of very stylish girls with coordinated outfits of mini-dresses, long necklaces and amazingly cool mod tights, from Life magazine photographer Arthur Schatz’s 1969 photo-essay on high school fashion.
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A girl in a very cute mod mini-dress from Life magazine photographer Arthur Schatz’s 1969 photo-essay on high school fashion.
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A high school band practice gathers for Life magazine photographer Arthur Schatz’s 1969 photo-essay on high school fashion.
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A group of high school girls wearing a variety of colorful mod styles in Life magazine photographer Arthur Schatz’s 1969 photo-essay on high school fashion.
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A girl sports a midriff-baring top in an image from Life magazine photographer Arthur Schatz’s 1969 photo-essay on high school fashion.
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A teenage girl sports bib-overall shorts and a bucket hat in Life magazine photographer Arthur Schatz’s 1969 photo-essay on high school fashion.
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A teenage girl in a cute sundress and yellow bell-bottoms and her boyfriend walk in an image from Life magazine photographer Arthur Schatz’s photo-essay on high school fashion in 1969.
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A teenage girl in a t-shirt and velvet pants poses for Life magazine photographer Arthur Schatz’s photo-essay on high school fashion in 1969.
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I’m going to end the “Back to School” theme with a selection of images from an amazing photo-essay Life magazine photographer Arthur Schatz did on high school fashion in 1969. These are some of my absolute favorite images of late 1960s fashion.
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What we think of as the standard frilly prom dress, with layers of gauze and tulle, developed in the mid-1950s. This picture of the 1958 Prom at Mariemont High School in Cincinnati show a lovely variety of these dresses as well as the very dapper white jacket/black pants combo that was the pinnacle of men’s formal evening wear in the late 1950s.
