Flair's special issue for Summer 1969 reports on the latest Paris designs - like this hippy-inspired outfit in "yellow brocade embroidered with gold". However...
...the women who originally read this magazine were probably more likely to wear clothes like this - or garments featured in any other advertisement in its pages. The late 1960s was one of those eras when the gap between the fashions on the catwalks and the fashions in the streets and shops became a chasm.
