At the close of the 60s for a brief few moments the West glimpsed the light. Fashion suddenly morphed into a riot of new designs and colours. Plastic fabrics like crimplene became more common – washable and non-creasing.
The 1970’s Edwardian revival brought back the elegance of the 1910’s in a simpler form. Hippy culture bought psychedelia.
The fashion life-span of garments was shortening. Quantity was going up and quality was going down but they had not yet become boring. Mass production was narrowing the range of colours but they had not died yet – they were going out in a blaze of glory.
By the end of the decade the colour palette was determined 5 years in advance by international chemical companies and clothes matched curtains, walls, cars and billboards. Every colour more or less went with every other colour. In the 1930’s some fabric designers still wrote their own palettes and you could walk out the door and still match the natural world. The 1980’s finally put an end to that.
When industrialisation matures machines might learn to produce quality fibres, fabrics, colours and designs and individually tailor them to fit.
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