Age of Protest.

The spirit of political protest did not end with the 1960s. In fact, with President Richard Nixon's expansion of the war in Vietnam in the early 1970s, young people continued to protest the war. The antiwar movement was predominantly made up of draft-age men and women who rejected the presence of American troops in what they considered to be a Vietnamese civil war. Rejecting the Nixon administration's explanation for the war, these protesters also questioned the entire value system of their parents' generation. Like the black power movement of the 1960s, the antiwar movement also spawned its own sense of alternative clothing and lifestyle.

Antifashion.

Spilling over from the hippie movement of the 1960s, young Americans embraced self-expression and androgyny. United in their common rejection of the fashion industry, both men and women turned to unisex dress and hairstyles. Men...