Museum Trip

Yesterday we went on a trip to London to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum. We went there to find out more about the 1960's for our upcoming project. The show was quite long and touched on many things from fashion to Martin luther King. It was very interesting learning about all of the culture and how the 1960's had such a big impact on the world. We also got a chance to look at the media that was used around that time, I found all of this very interesting. 

I think one of the most interesting things about the 60s was the festivals. Festivals at the time were a new idea and everyone was not sure on whether people would find interest in them. However they were quite quick to pick up and a lot of festivals around the UK managed to get around 500,000 people, when only expecting to reach around 50,000. I am very interested in how the word got about, and how so many people managed to hear about the event. Clearly posters paid a big part in this and I would like to have a further look into how the posters would have been designed, and how the were appealing for that time frame.

Fashion was also a very big part of the 60s and a lot of the trends back then were quite wacky and wild. Almost everything that people wore back then included something that appealed to the person wearing it, it gave everyone there own type of look. The radicle patterns were also very popular and a lot of them tried to look like the sorts of patterns you would see while getting a hallucination. You can see to the left that the colours on the clothes are very different to what people would wear today. I believe that people back then use to love expressing themselves are were not afraid to make a point. This was not only apparent in their clothes though, the many actions that people did back then were also very wild.