A new edition of the Santander BGA Fashion Week, more inclusive and recharged after a year and a half of sanitary restrictions, will take place in the capital of Santander starting this Thursday, September 30, as a route to publicize the best designers and models from Santander. and the country.

That is why VANGUARDIA compiled part of the history of the transformation of fashion that today continues to define the dress of many Santandereans.

The 1960s represented a revolution in people's fashion. Bucaramanga was not far behind. After passing from an elegant and sober trend, informality and freedom, as a result of different cultural and artistic events, the way of dressing of the citizens was taken.

The youth was in charge of transforming western clothing by imposing a more informal trend. The jean went from being an exclusive garment for workers and became the favorite of the people. In addition, women began to wear pants when decades before it was only for men. This one was wide and high-waisted.

The jean came to be worn as a daily garment. Pleated denim pants and bloomers were still on the market and were widely used. On top of shoes, tennis shoes became an addition to an everyday outfit.

The miniskirt, for its part, is the great revolutionary garment, like the 'shorts', which marked the fashion of that time, and according to the professor of Fashion History at the Manuela Beltrán University, Robinson Salazar, this meant the women's liberation back then. They even came to wear sandals or open shoes and boots, something that was normally for men.

“He made women control their bodies and dress however they wanted. If they wanted to show their legs, they did it,” added Salazar.

Esperanza Arango said that women who dressed in this way were negatively pointed out because the conservatism of society persisted. “They treated them as 'fufurufas' and disrespectful. Parents, mainly, scolded their daughters when they bought clothes like that," said the woman, who fully experienced that period.

It was common to see these pieces in citizens, as well as the use of plaid button-down shirts, colors such as black and white, even more vivid, and innovative designs such as dots and stripes. Optical art, with pictorial styles and geometric figures began to be a trend from that time. The teacher said that by then the prints on t-shirts became popular, a technique that has lasted since then.

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On the other hand, the traditional use was maintained, in the case of women, of wide and long skirts up to the shin, as well as plain and quite simple blouses. The brown and sober tones were more used in adults, who did not change their style much from previous years.

The women's hair was peculiar, most were shoulder length, or even shorter. They used to have complex and quite organized hairstyles, in many cases, with some volume, something that changed over time. Salazar says that many men took the haircut of the Beatles, or simply kept it quite short.

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Glasses with large, colored frames and flashy accessories were the most traditional in fashion at the time.

The hippies and the fashion of the 70s

Years later, hippism, as a cultural movement, had a high influence on the clothing of young people, and in some way, on that of adults. The garment most remembered by people is the bell-bottom pants, which were tight at the thighs and became wider at the ankles. They were usually combined with t-shirts or loose shirts, and accompanied by long necklaces. Men, for the most part, wore this type of pants, but women also came to wear it.

Regarding the hair, a messy and long hair, in the case of men, was synonymous with genius. The women also let their hair grow, almost to the waist, says the historian Salazar. This was part of a liberal and more anarchist culture, to break the standards of the bourgeoisie.

The most recurrent look, in many, was disheveled. These people had a greater approach to Rock, as they tried to follow the style of the musicians and wore shirts printed with the logos of bands such as AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, among others.

But there were also those who did not share the hippie line and wore clothes that, although they fixed the same garment model, were more formal and organized. The fashion of wearing platform shoes, ankle boots and clogs also began, and the miniskirt was maintained.

Closing the 1970s, the industrialization of Colombia gave rise to more possibilities for mass production of garments, making it easier to use what was in trend at that time.

And in the 80s...

There were a couple of changes in the way people dressed, where the characteristic garments of the time were loose and larger than the size of the person. Claudia Flórez, an independent worker, said that what most marked fashion was getting permanent curls. The ideal hair was curly, fairly poofy, and slightly longer than shoulder length.

To look "chubby" women wore shoulder pads and pointed high heels for the ladies with fairly baggy jeans at the waist and thick belts. Men continued to wear jeans and plaid button-down shirts, or T-shirts with artistic designs. Also very popular was the 'Alf' hairstyle, wide pleated denim pants, and jean shorts.

Flórez remembers that it became fashionable to wear pants made with Terlenca fabric, a thick and quite warm textile.

Earrings, chokers, bracelets and large diadems of quite bright colors were the most used by women. They were mostly made of pasta.

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