The 1960s witnessed an auful lot of students who spent an auful lot of time attempting to appear as though they didn't care much for their appearance.

Somehow they succeeded. Or did they?

Dress, like the vocabulary and music of the 1960s, served to set off and identify the generation who participated in what was widely called "The student movement." Had they been dressed in military garb they could have not been more conspicuous in their uniformity than they were.

It was Jerry Rubin, one of the chief guru's of the student movement who proclaimed that not bathing or brushing one's teeth was a "Revolutionary Statement," and so he neither bathed nor brushed his teeth. Most youths didn't take it quite this far. But dressing "down," in fatigues, Levis, sandles and sack dresses expressed youth's disdain for the older generation of Americans, and hence their values. It also displayed their "solidarity" with what they considered to be the underclass of American society, but without asking that they adopt the living standard of that underclass.