Explaining 60s Dolly Style

Hello dolls, 🌼
and welcome to "Explainin 60s Dolly Style"!
Join me on a trip through time back to London in the 1960s were Dolly Girls started to be seen around town.
In the mid 1960s the Dolly Style emerged amongst the youth. Rooted in Mod fashion these girls wore frilly babydoll dresses and did their makeup to appear as doll like as possible.
The essence of Dolly Style lied in its commitment to creating an image of perfect femininity and girlish charm. Aiming for a doll like appearance this look was characterized by short, puffed skirts, Peter Pan collars, and delicate, pastel colors. Lace, frills, and bows were abundant, making every outfit look as if it was plucked straight from a doll's wardrobe. This ultra-feminine style was a form of escapism, allowing young women to indulge in a fantasy world of innocence and beauty.
Pattie Boyd, Britt Ekland and Brigitte Bardot were classic dolly girls while muses like Sharon Tate and Twiggy wore the style for a little while.
Bands like The Beatles and The Monkees made dreamy music for the Dolly girls to dance and aydream to.
Movies like "A Hard Days Night" or "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" were widely successfull while Syd Barret later sang about "A Dolly Rocker".
Despite its brief heyday, dolly fashion left an indelible mark on the cultural landscape. It significantly influenced fashion, music, and visual art, with its dreamy and feminine elements still visible in contemporary design. Modern designers, musicians, and artists continue to draw inspiration from its legacy, ensuring that the dolly style endures as a cherished and iconic part of fashion history.
Dolly fashion remains a nostalgic reference point for the 1960s, capturing the era's playful innocence.

Sending you dolls the biggest hug, thank you for watching! 💌

All my lovin,
xx Emma 💌

Always remember that you are beautiful with & without makeup and that you don't need a lot of clothes to dress vintage! ⭐️

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⭐️ Hello dear dolls and welcome to my channel! My name is Emma Rosa Katharina and I'm making videos all about 1960s & 1970s fashion, makeup, music and pop-culture. I had a baby last spring and I'm uploading vlogs regularly sharing our life as a young family with you.So if you fancy the spirit of these long lost days I wanna welcome you to my world! On this channel, I upload videos every week surrounding topics such as vintage fashion, thrifting and all about the people that made the 60s & 70s so wonderful. So if you're looking for a little time travel back to the days of The Beatles, The Doors and the Rolling Stones I am happy to welcome you to my world! ⭐️

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[theniteowl]

women should never feel bad about styling skirts and tights

[a-]

Thanks so much Emma for this exploration of Dolly style. I turned 12 in 1964, and so I got to experience this massive shift in fashion firsthand. And I remember wearing my fringe long exactly like yours, the ends just brushing my eyelashes.(My mother couldn't stand it, LOL).
Hope you don't mind me adding the following background info. The direction which women's fashion took in the mid-sixties became possible only because of new developments in textile and undergarment technology. My mother prepared me for adolescence by buying me the established bra style, which had hardly changed since the 1940s. It was a stiff white cotton construction with pointy cups, and was hideously uncomfortable. Along with that came the stiff white cotton suspender belt or girdle, with chunky clips to hold up your stockings, ( not to mention the sanitary belt holder with clips). These items had very little elastic in them, so they lacked give. They looked so utilitarian, too.
Then in the '60s came nylon and synthetics, and the invention of stretch fabrics for undergarments. Girls could buy pretty and comfy stretch bras in a rainbow of colours - without all the old-school reinforcing. And wonder of wonders - pantyhose were invented, which meant that stockings, and those horrid suspender belts and girdles which our mothers and grandmas wore, could be thrown away. Pantyhose were 10 times more comfortable, plus we could now safely raise our hem heights without showing the world our suspenders -- win-win! and how we loved to show off our textured pantyhose (where I lived, we didn't call them tights, "tights" then meant thick ballet tights, not nylons for day wear). Pantyhose were available in every colour and every woven pattern you could think of, including my personal favorite, fishnet. We wore heels which were low, comfy and practical with wider toe-boxes, in contrast to our mothers who were still wearing bunion-causing pointy-toe stilettos from the 1950s (eww!); and we didn't need to wear girdles, because the new fashions weren't waist-hugging (again, unlike tight-waisted '50s fashion). By 1967 we weren't even using hairspray any more! But best of all, the Dolly look was not a look that older women could pull off. Our mothers would have looked odd if they started wearing bows on their heads, and “little girl” styles; so we teenagers had this fashion style all to ourselves. 60's fashion did indeed feel like stepping into a new world of youth freedom.

[piinkoon]

Never getting over how cute this style is~~ Can't believe I didn't know that much about it until now!

[suzannelawson]

When I was young, growing up in 60's and 70's I wanted to look like Patty Boyd or her younger sister, model, Jenny Boyd. I especially envied Jenny Boyd, , because my favourite folk singer, Donovan really liked Jenny a lot and wrote a song for her, called "Jennifer, Juniper." He invited her to one of his photo shoots for cover of one of his 60's albums and you can see Jenny Boyd on that cover with Donovan. She is playing a flute and is a fairy tale looking beautiful.

[seabreeze]

My grandmother was a Mod, apparently some of the Babydoll dresses were quite risque and like wearing lingerie outside but nobody sells those anymore, moreso the frumpy oversized cotton ones, "like a circus tent" and dowdy fitting. Some lacey silky ones were daring and very sexy, obviously they didn't publish photos of those due to obscenity laws? Since some of the models were girls, not women or made to look like girls. But it's like a chemise from the Regency, but cropped. Tights were required so you didn't flash anyone on the bus or train. It was considered dirty to put your bare skin on a chair, still is. Anything shorter than knee length needs tights and finishing schools still abide by this rule. Apparently Austin Powers was quite accurate for womenswear. Jean Shrimpton was most realistic and under-rated for Mod style. Some was harkening to Victorian or Edwardian dolls houses, like you stepped out as a paper doll. They kept weight down by walking all over London. If we can see where you've applied blush, you've applied too much. It had nothing to do with Lolita, Americans get that wrong and it's quite insulting they'd be mistaken for endorsing CSA. 7:16 proves my point about it being old slang, we still use, not a specific look. This was before rich developers kicked the working class out of London. It wasn't about gender, it was about feeling refreshing.

[fearless]

Dolly fashion began again in the very late 90's (Babes in Toyland / Courtney Love) in rock-n-roll/punk culture, and again in the early 2000's with a variation - goth / creepy / dark dolls. Bride of Chucky was inspired by this Dolly look.

[abundantlyinspired]

Love this🌸💝As a child of the late 60's I sooo remember being dressed like this. I still adore a lot of the elements of this style.😊

[andreapardo]

“I know a sweet girl, she seen a Dolly Rocker” 💄 Super informative, as always! 🩷 Thanks for these videos. Definitely getting excited about the upcoming wedding content in June 🥰

[dprtz]

not me literally looking for vintage little girls dresses for my own closet 🥴 but dolly rock girls growing up kinda reminds me of the 90's Kind3rwh0r3 era and the more modern era of this would be lolita and dollcore or morute (morbid cute) fashion, I think

[Shungabali]

Great explanation, please continue telling us more about the 60's fashio n and 70's❤❤❤

[babiegirl]

i love the dolly its kind of coquette a little! i hope your wedding is amazing!

[christopherkeil]

Although this most likely won't get read, this video is really useful to me. Exactly what I've been looking for going into 1964. Emma you are a true muse. Thanks!

[sagewowomg]

This is my absolute favorite style trend of the 60s! I just discovered your channel, this video is great 💗💗💗💗

[alomaalber]

Loved it and lived it. People told me I looked like Patti Boyd! We had thrift store plaid pencil skirts from the 1950's and hemmed them short with matching colored fishnets! I might do the bangs again!

[kqitty]

As a Melanie Martinez fan, and a love for fashion, i soon developed a love for this doll-like fashion, being inspired by Melanies outfits like these, i found my aesthetic. 💝

[birdiehop]

I love that you included the Syd Barrett song in this! I’m such a huge fan (hence, my channel name). That was when I first heard to the style and didn’t know much about it at the time. Someone mentioned “twee fashion” of the 90s. I’ve never heard of that and would love a video on that, too. 💕🙏

[sweetwillow]

This is where the Twee style in the 2000s came from! ❤

[claireparker]

I absolutely luv retro fashion and make it a part of my everyday wear I feel like some of my looks are both mod and dolly I love especially floral and polka dots. 🥰

[jamesnock]

Bardot❤. Thank you for another interesting video. She's a dolly rocker🎵🎵🙋‍♂️

[agnesclienrytter]

It would be nice to see a video of you explaining Biba fashion, silhouette and philosophy, I love these videos🕊