In the 1960s, children became aware of their appearance and wanted to look “cool.”
Boys as young as eight started to have strong opinions about how their hair should look and how tight their pants should be. They didn’t want a “regular boy’s haircut” because they no longer wanted to be regular boys. They wanted Beatle boots, and thought about how they, too, might look cool holding a guitar.
Some preteen girls also wanted to look like the Beatles, but more often girls, even as young as eight and nine, wanted to look like Cynthia, Pattie, Jane, and Maureen. Looking cool became extremely important.
Many of the millions of boomers who battled with parents over hair length and skirt length in mid-sixties were not yet in double digits.
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