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Hippies are easily spotted due to their psychedelic hippy clothes - long hair, flares and spangly accessories, but hippies were originally defined by their interesting and unconventional lifestyle choices. The word 'hippy' or 'hippie' dates back to 1965, from an article by a San Francisco journalist. 'Hippy' originally described a small group of bohemians and beatniks rebelling against established institutions and middle class values, who became distinctive for their enthusiasm for displaying their individuality. Hippies were particularly noted for their opposition to the Vietnam War, their enthusiasm for aspects of Eastern religions, and above all they had a real thing for hippy communal living, free love and mind expanding substances. Not to mention and a general hippie fondness for nudity and creatively decorated hippie volkswagen camper vans.
The summer of 1967 was known as the hippie 'Summer of Love', as it was dominated by hippy antics. The Scott MacKenzie song 'San Francisco' was so popular with hippies all over the world that thousands of young hippies travelled to San Francisco bearing flowers. The hippies also formed large numbers of hippy communes in the United States at this time. Another notable hippy event was the Woodstock Festival in 1969, over 500 000 hippies attended the festival to see acts like Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix. The Altamont Festival the same year played host to the Rolling Stones and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Artists like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell were also really influential in hippy culture.
Hippies really embraced the peace symbol of the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), and it was used a hippy anti-Vietnam symbol. It often replaced the VW badge on their beloved VW vans. Hippies are also distinguished by their many beards, hippie beads, sandals, head scarves and tie dyed items. The Hippy often likes to make his or her own hippie clothes, as a protest against Western values.
The hippy principles of peacefully opposing established values spread through their association with popular music, the hippy movement was quite closely linked to folk and later psychedelia in particular. Hippies started out in the 1960s as an ultra-cool counter-cultural group advocating pacificism and a general resistance to establishment principles, since then the dominance of flared jeans has made us all hippies, although thankfully unlike the best hippies, many of us still wash our hair. Hippies are now generally associated with all kinds of alternative lifestyle choices, together with tie dye and other types of boho hippy fashion.