17 Vintage Color Photos Showing High School Fashions in 1969, California

In 1969, photographer Arthur Schatz went to a California high school to do a photo-essay for LIFE Magazine on an emerging trend in fashion.

The results seemed to find the youth of the time developing an identity for their generation.

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