How to dress up like a flower child

DIY Hippie Costume: Peace Out As a 60s Flower Child

The series “Get Crafty” features handy how-to guides that will help you tap into your passion for crafting and show you how to make all kinds of fun and inventive creations. In this article, crafting expert Julie Mulligan shows you how to create the ultimate hippie costume – a ’60s flower child!

My 12-year-old granddaughter Juliette and I recently went at shopping a few of my favorite local vintage stores here in Rockaway, New York. It was trip down memory lane – I was a teen in the 1960s and 1970s, and it seems like days of peace and love are back in fashion. The flowing tops, bell-bottom pants, and tie-dyed shirts weren’t limited to just the vintage stores!

And I know about the originals, having been a teen in the 60s and 70s. Yes, I was a hippie/flower child. Here’s proof:

I wore flowers in my hair when I married my best friend in 1972! This was just a few years before my brother Jim started a little flower business in an 800-square-foot flower shop in New York City that grew into 1-800-Flowers. com. My little brother, Chris, eventually grew the family business and became CEO and president of a family of brands that now includes Shari’s Berries, Harry & David, Cheryl’s Cookies, and many more. Can you pick Jim and Chris out in the photo above?

The best Halloween hippie costume? A flower child!

The trip down memory lane inspired Juliette to dress up as a flower child for Halloween. It was the perfect choice. One reason? She could just wear half of the clothes that she has in her closet! But we found a lot more inspiration during our shopping trip.

Juliette found this great Baja hoodie that she loves and can wear with a tie-dye t-shirt and a pair of a pair of jeans. Any kind will do – bell bottom, ripped, cut-off, shredded, except skinny! This was the period before Gloria Vanderbilt introduced us to designer jeans and when we called them dungarees!

A pooka shell necklace would be nice but what sets this look apart is a crown of flowers in your hair! And to me the daisy is the flower of that generation and that time. This fresh flower daisy crown is so easy and inexpensive to make that it is a Halloween win-win for the tween and her mom!

Here’s how we did it, step by step.

Step 1

This is all you need, seriously! Two stems of daisy pom-poms and wire.

Step 2

You might even be lucky enough to have some Montauk daisies growing in your garden (or a friends) that you can clip a few flowers from.

Step 3

Using a clippers or scissors, clip the individual flowers from the stem, right at the base of the receptacle.

Step 4

Lay the flowers out on the table with the larger size daisies in the middle. About six flowers should be enough. I didn’t put the flowers all the way around – just in the front.

Step 5

Starting with one of the larger daisies from the middle, simply thread the wire through the receptacle.

Step 6

Slide the first daisy to the middle of the piece of wire. I used an 18” length wire.

Step 7

Here’s how your full “daisy chain” should look!

Step 8

Make a loop on one end of the wire.

Step 9

Take a second piece of wire and thread it through the loop to attach. If you have any floral tape around you can wrap the stem where you make the loop to hold it more securely, but it isn’t necessary. You could also use masking tape.

Step 10

Take the other end of the second wire and loop it through the loop on the other side of the wire with the flowers. Don’t close this loop until you place it on the head of your Flower Child. This allows you to make sure that it fits exactly the way they want it to. The most important component in creating a successful hippie costume is comfort and wear-ability!

This flower crown is so light and easy to wear and makes the wearer feel like a beautiful free spirit filled with peace and love!

Today’s flower child

Like everything else today, being a Flower Child is definitely more intentional, designer level, social-media worthy, and expensive.

Think flower crowns for Coachella! If you are serious about knocking it out of the park this Halloween or just want to live your best Flower Child life, you can find all of the instructions here. Which every path you choose remember to just have fun with it!

Peace out!

20 Best Hippie Costume Ideas for 2022

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Some Halloween costumes will always be a classic go-to option. There's that purr-fect cat costume (and yes, we also do mean the one for your kitties), the spooky witch, the trusty superhero or toy costume, and of course, the laid-back hippie outfit.

You can always count on a cool hippie costume for some free-spirited Halloween fun and groovy vibes, especially if you're a fan of treats over scary tricks. Whether you want to dress up in the vintage-inspired clothes you already own and add some retro peace-sign jewelry, or go full-on flower child with bell bottoms and tie-dye, these outfits, and accessories for men and women will have you totally ready for your costume parties.

Ready to get radical? Check out our must-haves for creating the ultimate bohemian hippie costume to spread the love this Halloween. Alexa, play “Age of Aquarius!”

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Strappy Gladiator Sandals

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Best Fringed Accessory

Fun World

Hippie Fringe Boot Covers

Best Yoko Ono Dress

SheIn

Crochet Bell Sleeve Dress

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Best Psychedelic Accessories

Zilo Novelties

Hippie Costume Set

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Best Basic Accessory Set

Tatuo

3-Piece Hippie Costume Set

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Best Floral Headpiece

AWAYTR

Hippie Flower Headband

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Best Vest

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Faux-Suede Vest with Fringe

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Best Plus-Size

Leg Avenue

Groovy Hippie Costume

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Most Detailed Accessory Set

WILLBOND

4-Piece Women's Hippie Costume Set

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Best for Men

Smiffys

Orion the Hippie Costume

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Best Lennon Shirt

Ann Arbor T-shirt Co.

NYC Lennon Ringer Vintage Shirt

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Best Beatles Costume

Forum Novelties

Sgt. Pepper Beatles Costume Jacket

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Best Full Costume

SATINIOR

Women's Hippie Costume Set

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Best Boho

Gardenbelle Designs

Hippie Patchwork Wide-Leg Overalls

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Best Bell-Bottoms

WarriorWithinDesigns

Paisley-Print Bell-Bottoms

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Best Flowy Set

Gardenbelle Designs

Flowy Silk Top-and-Bottom Set

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Comes in 20+ Colors

Koloa Surf Co.

Colorful Tie-Dye T-Shirt

$20 AT AMAZON

Best Retro Wig

Allaura

’70s Wig and Mustache Costume

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Best Folksy Set

WILLBOND

4-Piece Hippie Bohemian Costume

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Best Concert Tee

Liquid Blue

Woodstock Tie-Dye Short Sleeve T-Shirt

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Summer festivals: dress like stars for open-air parties

How to dress for the festival? This issue is especially relevant in the summer, when the largest number of open-air music parties take place around the world. Dancing all night long to the sounds of your favorite music - celebrities think through their style to the smallest detail in order to be on the wave.

Music festivals originated in the 60s - the era of hippies, which formed the main features of the festival clothing style. Colorful things with prints, jewelry in the hair, sandals with laces, denim, suede and leather, to summarize, it's all boho style.

However, even these images, which, it would seem, have collected all the bright things at once, have their own directions. Choose the one closest to you and dress up!

Boho princess

Light dresses with frills, marshmallow-colored tunics and light lace outfits will help create this romantic look. Complete them with high Greek sandals or comfortable "Cossacks".

Complete the outfit with a graceful crown or flowers in your hair.

Get inspired by how singer Florence Welch and model Gigi Hadid wear these looks.

flower child

Floral chiffon dresses, ethnic patterned chiffon tunics, fringes, feathers, wide-brimmed hats and loose ponchos are all you need if you want to achieve the free-spirited hippie look. Dressing like this for any festival is just right.

A stunning effect will be created by bright strands in the hair, which can be dyed with spray or washable chalk paints. They are easy to find in cosmetic stores.

Rockstar

If you want to dress for the festival in the spirit of a rock artist, you will need a lot of leather, ripped denim with studs and a themed football or top. On the feet there can be rough boots that are not afraid of dirt, and studded bracelets are perfect as accessories.

A bandage bodice will make this look even sexier if it peeks out from under the top. The most daring can put it on top.

The beauty of festival fashion is that things from each direction can be mixed with each other, creating your own unique mix. The frankness and variegation of the outfit depends only on your courage and the place you are going to visit.

Enjoy summer, music and freedom!

And if you have already visited the evening open-air, post your photos in the comments.

Text: medny.ru

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Hippie style in clothes: H is for Happiness

Who among us has never heard of the hippie style? He is remembered with nostalgia, admired, condemned and argued about him to the point of hoarseness, but no one is indifferent to him.

So, who were these people who called themselves hippies and turned the trend in music and fashion into a way of life with their own values, traditions and idols?

First of all, these are young people, often creative: young musicians, poets, artists and/or intellectuals from 15 to 25 years old. These guys and girls in love with life called themselves flower children, protested against the Vietnam War and the cult of money, strove for inner freedom, harmony with nature and people, and reflected this in their appearance.

Ripped jeans from the 60s. Steve Jobs wore them and hippo

What is the hippie style of clothing? What makes today's youth come back to it decades later?

Hippie style attributes

First of all, of course, simplicity and convenience. Complex cut? Why, if the movements should be natural and not constrained by anything ?! Bras on girls? This is for fans of generally accepted values and fashion trends that hippies ruthlessly brushed aside. Representatives of this subculture preferred loose blouses, under which the seductive outlines of the body were guessed.

Hippie girls

Only natural fabrics . They are more pleasant to the body, and healthier, and closer to Mother Nature.

Hippies choose natural fabrics

The only rule of hippie style is the complete absence of canons and rules. Long live the mix of styles!

Artificially or even naturally aged or damaged clothes, worn, frayed or torn, with bright patches from other fabrics and inscriptions.

Variegation in clothing, which sometimes seems ridiculous. The hippie style of clothing is characterized by puffy skirts and dresses with a high waist and articulation under the bust and exclusively from light matter.

Prints and colors of flower children

Dress and jewelry with hippie style

Active use of headscarves and bandanas. They served as headdresses, belts, and decorations.

The girl in the headscarf

The basis of the hippie wardrobe is jeans, furiously torn, flared, patched with pieces of bright fabric, wrinkled and frayed.

Hippie-style bows

Read: New Look style

Proximity to one's ancestors and their traditions suggests using ethnic prints in clothes. Loose ponchos, sweaters and cardigans/sweatshirts in coarse knit.

Cardigans for a hippie look

Photos illustrating the hippie style of clothing show guys and girls in acid-colored T-shirts and t-shirts. Since the history of the formation of the youth movement was associated with such psychedelic substances as marijuana and LSD, the clothes use a rather peculiar color theme: concentric circles of bizarre shapes and all the colors of the rainbow, strange fronts and patterns of poisonous colors - without all this it is difficult to imagine the hippie style.

Hippie prints

On their feet, the flower children wore simple flip flops, sandals, bright sneakers or no shoes at all, as true connoisseurs of the original and natural look.

Hippie girls often go barefoot

To look like a representative of this subculture, it is not necessary to turn the whole ebay upside down in order to buy hippie clothes. It is enough to visit a couple of sales and secondhand shops. There you will definitely find what you need. Your old jeans, t-shirt or leather vest will help create a perfect look in this style.

Any needlewoman can make a patch on jeans

Hippie Do It Yourself

As for makeup, it should either be completely absent or resemble a real war paint with heavily lined eyes and underlined eyebrows. You should completely forget about lipstick or choose the most natural shade.

Makeup and that's all in the hippie style

The hippie style in clothes for girls differs little from men's: the same torn jeans or flared trousers, colorful T-shirts, instead of feminine caps and hats - scarves and bandanas.

Hippie hairstyles are not particularly intricate . Representatives of both sexes grow long hair, which they called hairs and are worn loose, braided into simple braids, tied in ponytails or worn under a bandage - a scarf or bandana.

Women's hairstyles in the hippie style

From accessories, bags made of natural materials or special neck denim bags for documents and the most valuable things are in use. If hippies wear sunglasses, then always with colored glasses to see the world in even brighter colors.

Boho girls in sunglasses

What true flower child doesn't love baubles? These bracelets, woven from threads, beads, wood, leather or other improvised means, were used not only as decorations, but also carried a certain symbolic meaning. With the help of baubles, one could express friendly sympathy or confess one's love. There was even an opinion among hippies that a person has as many friends as there are baubles on his hands :).