….While environmentally conscious consumers today disdain planned obsolescence and disposable products, looking instead to recycling, in the 1960s things disposable often embodied a spirit of transience, a free-wheeling sensibility that captured the rebelliousness and youth-oriented pleasure of the Generation Gap generation.
Music and visual art are more familiar for the way 1960s values and aesthetics found public expression. But you can get a sense of that same sensibility at a new exhibit that opens this weekend at the UW Design Gallery, which is featuring disposable dresses.