The bohemian thrift-shop fashion of hippies photographed in San Francisco during the Summer of Love in 1967 won over the country's youth culture by year's end. Then came the colorful satin Nehru outfits of the Beatles in India in the spring of '68. The look and mainstreaming of psychedelia had a strange effect on adults in '69 and beyond.
That year, many…
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