The hippie dress code was the talk of the town. Most school authorities disputed the style and numerous cases went to court. To school authorities, their nonconventional appearance implied defiant dress and grooming as a rejection of authority. Long hair was the most popular symbol of the young people’s right to look the way they pleased. Following that were beards, headbands, miniskirts, tie-die, and many other bohemian looks. Their need for individuality shook up the Middle American dress code.
The hippie look went even further with patched and torn blue jeans, fringed jackets, funky dresses, ragged T-shirts, desert boots, and sandals. Even more controversial, were the women going braless and the people walking barefoot. Hippies also enjoyed painting their bodies and faces with psychedelic colors and wearing flowers in their hair and behind their ears. The more shocking they dressed the more they outraged adults- and the more they enjoyed the commotion they created. Soon fashion designers were manufacturing the counterculture’s style of dress.
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