The late sixties were the era of the flared-bottomed pants, foreshadowing the much more obvious bell-bottoms of the seventies. Polyester was a very common material and skirts were short. Women were no longer embarrassed to flaunt their stuff in public.
Although wild colors were nothing new, in the late 1960s the patterns were even brighter. And then something crazy happened. The waistline disappeared again. Women were strolling around in tunics and culottes, with the wind flowing right through their comfortable, flowing and quite baggy gowns.