International Textile and Apparel Association 2016: Blending Cultures (ITAA) Annual Conference Proceedings Nov 9th, 12:00 AM "I Just Thought It Looked Cool": Cultural Appropriation by Music Festival Attendees Lorynn Divita Baylor University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/itaa_proceedings Part of the Fashion Design Commons Divita, Lorynn, ""I Just Thought It Looked Cool": Cultural Appropriation by Music Festival Attendees" (2016). International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) Annual Conference Proceedings. 35. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/itaa_proceedings/2016/posters/35 This Event is brought to you for free and open access by the Conferences and Symposia at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) Annual Conference Proceedings by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Vancouver, British Columbia 2016 Proceedings ‘I Just Thought It Looked Cool’: Cultural Appropriation by Music Festival Attendees Lorynn Divita, Baylor University, USA Keywords: culture, appropriation, music, festivals Ethnic clothing styles have been popular dress among attendees of rock music festivals since the early days of Woodstock and the emergence of the ‘hippie’ youth subculture. During the Woodstock era, ethnic dress fulfilled the dual criteria of being inexpensive but eye-catching, while simultaneously expressing the hippies’ interest in Eastern religions and the rejection of Western consumerism. In photo essays from Woodstock, women are shown wearing Indian or African cotton that had been made into maxi skirts, shawls or peasant blouses, while men wore Eastern-style tunics, embroidered waistcoats, denim jeans and velvet trousers, all common elements of hippie dress (Powe-Temperley, 1999).