
1970s · 1960s · British
Production
ready-to-wear
Material
synthetic satin
Culture
British
Movement
Peacock Revolution · Hippie / Counterculture
Influences
Renaissance doublet sleeves · Edwardian bishop sleeves
A men's dress shirt in lustrous dusty pink synthetic satin featuring a dramatically contrasting silhouette. The torso is fitted and tailored with a standard pointed collar and button-front placket extending to mid-chest. The sleeves create striking visual impact through their extreme volume - gathered into fitted cuffs at the wrists, they balloon outward in exaggerated puffs that epitomize late 1960s fashion experimentation. The synthetic satin fabric catches light across its surface, creating subtle variations in tone from pale rose to deeper pink. This garment represents the period's embrace of gender-fluid fashion and synthetic materials, combining traditional shirt construction with avant-garde proportions that challenged conventional menswear.
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Lineage: “Peacock Revolution menswear”
That shimmering pink satin shirt is pure Peacock Revolution swagger—the kind of lustrous synthetic fabric that let working-class men approximate aristocratic glamour in the early '70s, with those voluminous sleeves gathering like liquid metal at the wrists.