others come directly from the aforementioned icons, whose '60s style was emulated and revered—and remains so today. Here are the photos that prove the '60s was the best fashion decade.

Before the organizational power of modern social media existed, a group of students protested segregation with the first-ever sit-in, and women's rights ... have marked the '60s, but it was ...

Many of these photos capture these cutting-edge trends ... "Mod" (short for modernist) style originated in London in the '60s; for the women, it meant shorter hair, shorter skirts, and more ...