HIPPIE

DEFINITION AND ORIGIN: It's called a hippie a hippie or hippie counterculture movement born in 1960 in the United States, as well as the followers of this movement. The English word hippie derives from hipster who used to be used to describe the subculture after the beatniks (not to be confused with Beat Generation), which was based also important to the U.S. city of San Francisco (California) and Haight-Ashbury district. This new subculture inherited some countercultural values ​​of the Beat Generation and to a lesser extent German naturism, and in some cases created their own intentional communities.

STYLE DISPUTE BEHAVIOR AND REJECTION: The hippie icon is usually a man with hair and beard considerably longer than what is considered "elegant" at the time. Both sexes tended to be left with long hair and wearing what some hippies Caucasian African style, imitating blacks. One way to break the existing social patterns was something as simple as wearing the pants out of place in the hip or hip, making the person look sloppy. From there one of the meanings of the word hippie, who wears the pants at the hip.
Among women showed a tendency not to wear a bra and not shave armpits or legs. This would influence the subsequent decades feminism but others were still more transcendent values ​​such as free love, which he argued for the right to pleasure, avoiding the constraints of the nuclear family and the state.