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Twiggy
Fashion icon Lesley Lawson, more commonly known as "Twiggy" for her tall, lean physique and long legs, is often referred to as the face of 1966. Her body type was ideal to showcase popular styles of the times, especially "Mod" short skirts and tent style dresses. -
Star Treck Original Series Episode 1
The first episode of the original Star Treck series aired.
The sweater in bold colors with a regular or v-neck and a turtleneck or polo-neck shirt underneath was a common look in men's fashion and became the iconic look for the show. -
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Star Treck Original Series
The original Star Treck series aired for three seasons between 1966 and 1969 -
Episode 14
The costumes in the screen shot from episode 14 of season 1 of the original series are great demonstrations of the influence of 60s fashion. The short, structured, bright colored dress and the jacket with no colar were popular men's and women's fashion. -
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Star Trek season 2 episode 1
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Season 3 episode
Another great example of costume that could basically be a normal dress of the time -
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Pierre Cardin was a French designer known for his avant-garde and space age designs. Think this might have been a costume influence? -
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1970s fashion
In the 1970s, men's jackets with colars began to reappear, bell bottom trousers came into vogue and women's shirts stayed short! Platform boots and hot pants became popular, and more inovations were made with fabric, making very bright shiney and sparkly choices available. -
Animated Series
The animated series kept a very similar look to the original series costumes. -
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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The Power Suit
With more women than ever in the work place, one look in women's fashion was all about power. The Power Suit! A matching skirt and jacket set in various prints and colors with huge shoulders, a fitted waist and peplum were all integral parts of this look. -
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The uniforms in this film are significantly different although still have the signature "red shirt" feel. But still very, very 80's -
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Keeping similar uniforms from Star Trek II, and still very obviously inspired by the 80's however the main characters wore civillian clothing. -
Style Icon: Princess Diana
Princess Diana quickly became a worldwide style icon. -
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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Changing Shapes
In the 1980s, the shape of women's clothes changed pretty dramatically. In the 1960s and 70s, tight skirts and tops were popular, and while they remained popular even today, in the 80s lose fitting shirts with more form fitting pants or skirts became popular. -
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The crew uniforms looked similar to those in the original series, however there were some differences. The tops are definitely not sweaters anymore!
The color also shifts from the bright, primary colors of the original series to more muted and understated tones, the women's cotumes reflected different styles like the power suit, wide nechlines, large shoulder pads and jump suits. -
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation aired for 7 seasons. -
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Deanna Troi
Troi's uniform on the show contrasts with that of Dr. Crusher, -
Diverse crew uniforms
This picture of the crew shows the wide range of fashions drawn on for costumes. Can we all just take a moment and admire that orange sweatshirt? -
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
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Dr. Crusher
A strong female character, Dr Crusher has a very "power suit-esque" costume. -
1990s Fashion (The "anti-fashion" decade)
While a lot of styles from the 1980s carried over to the 90s, a major movement was that of the rejection of fashion and materialism that were so prevelent throughout the 80s, a shift that is still growing today. The popularization of subculture fashions such as goth, grunge and hip hop. -
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
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Deep Space Nine
Deep Space Nine costumes stayed very close to TNG style, however they are slightly more modern looking with smaller shoulder pads and mostly black. -
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was on the air for 7 seasons between 1993 and 1999 -
Rise of Tattoos and Body Modification
In the 90s, tattoos and body modifications besides just pierced ears started to become more popular. Things that had once been thought of as more taboo started to move more into mainstream culture and the alien races portrayed in the Series started to draw influence from that. -
Star Trek Generations
Intended as a sort of cross over from the original series to TNG -
Minimalism
Another look that arose in the fashion world as a rejection of the over-the-top looks the 80s was minimalism. All about clean lines and and neutral colors, this style seems to influence some of the costume in the Star Trek shows of this time period -
Star Trek: Voyager
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Star Trek: Voyager
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The Rise of Prep
The mid 90s gave way to preppy fashion inspired by the 60s and made popular by movies like Clueless and TV shows like Friends. -
Star Trek: First Contact
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Star Trek: Insurrection
Uniforms still look pretty standard, but other costumes are clearly influenced by 90's minimalism. -
Elaborate Costums
With greater budget and more technological advances in fabrics and construction and make up techniques allowed for more elaborate costumes and beleivable aliens! -
Hair Color
The late 90s saw a products developed to temporarily change hair color and were popular amoung alternative scenes like goth and punk as well as teenagers. -
2000's (the "mash-up" decade)
The 2000's are most notable for not actually having any distinctive looks in fashion and is sometimes called the mash-up decade for recycling retro looks from the 1920's-1980's and spawning the hipster subculture. More fashions from around the world became popular in the US and consumers started to care more about sustainable, organic, ethically made and eco-friendly clothin. -
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise is set as a prequel to the original series and is set in the early days if intersteller travel and the crew uniforms look decidedly different than in every other series in the franchise. In fact, they look similar to modern day NASA astronaut jumpsuits. -
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Star Trek: Enterprise
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NASA Flight Suit
The uniforms in Star Trek: Enterprise seem more inspired by the NASA flight suit than the uniforms in the previous season or surrent fashion trends. -
Star Trek Nemesis
Still standard uniforms, however the Romulan leader's costume seems inspired by 90's punk or goth style. -
Hipsters
If the 2000s have any defining fashion or movement, it would have to be the hipster. It can be difficult to identify hipsters since their styles can be very different from each other, but they can generally be identified by their distinct lack of interest in anything except for things nobody else is interested in. -
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This Cynthia Rowley design seems more inspired by the original Star Trek costumes than the costumes in Enterprise. -
Star Trek (film)
A new fature length Star Trek film was released in 2009. It is a prequel to the original series, following the characters before they became the crew of the Enterprise. Because of this setting, the costumes stay pretty true to the original series uniforms. -
Star Trek Sequel
Sequel to the 2009 film.
