While looking for more examples about how fashion gives a new view of women, i found information on hippies, and this is a great example of the effect of how fashion can alter the views of society on a group of people. The power of fashion gives people an insight on who they are and their beliefs/ideas. During this time era, fashion was a major area of rebellion amoung the younger generation. The "Flower Child" showed those elders in society that they were taking in part of this movement and constantly reminded them of the change taking place. Also, when seeing a person wearing the loose flowy clothing, flowers in their long hair, a free spirit emanated from their appearance. By having a statement from their fashion, hippies made their effect even greater. Fashion was the driving force in their rebellious movement. They were departing from the strict, traditional way of life and emersing in a free uninhibited lifestyle. People could recognize and infer who taking part in this movement merely by seeing them. This is very powerful. Just by seeing someone they could make a valid assumption about who that person is associated with and what their political and moral views were. This supports my search about the effect of fashion and women because anyone can do this! Fashion has such a huge impact that women can effectively make a statement by changing what they wear. I find this really intriguing and actually incredible that something so materialistic can symbolize such a deep and intellectual idea.