The Hippie Movement and the Power of Flower
‘Flower power’, ‘make art, not war’ and ‘don’t worry, be happy’ are a few slogans most of us have come across, at some point in our lives. Personally, flower power was etched onto everything I owned at the start of my teens. I had to give off a girl-crush, power-puff girl vibe after all. And the girl upstairs was obsessed with the famous peace symbol back then- she made it her entire personality.
Well, let me break it to you- these aesthetic slogans and symbols have a long history to them, which can be traced back to the U.S in the 1960s.
Hippie, Yippie!
If you've ever been into accessories made of colourful beads, room decor that screams bohemian and flashy posters, then you've definitely been called a hippie before. Now that you think about it, you can probably draw the correlation between the slogans and symbols I’d mentioned above, and the word hippie.
Let's just say that this description of hippie aesthetic is pretty accurate. But, limiting their identity to an aesthetic would undermine the enormous impact they had on the American society and in turn, the world as a whole.
