25 Vintage Pictures of Your Parents and Grandparents Being Cooler Than You’ll Ever Be

So you think your life is cool and the older generation will never know what that word means? Well! If your parents lived in the sixties and seventies that was the freedom and flower power era synonymous with coolness more than you’ll ever know. If you really want some insight into the life your parents and the older generation lived in the time of phrases like “peace brother” or “Give peace a chance”, then take a look at these classic but cool vintage photos of earlier generations.

1 Here’s hitting it off from the start

Now how cooler can this outfit be. This was the trendy look of the seventies, the less clothes hippy flower power look where women dressed like this for Woodstock and a Joan Baez concert. 

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2Cool couple

This is the very best of times when couples chilled out in the back of a car parked into a drive-in movies, a drive in movie was the best time to have fun or a cheap date with your partner. 

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3Flower power

Here’s the hippy look with those flared bell bottoms and tank tops but what is missing is the peace amulet and a flower in her hair. Ask your parents if they remember Scott Mackenzie with the famous line “if you going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair” 

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4Women loved bikes

And they carried it off with style but check out the clothes, and does it make you smile that the lumber look has come back in fashion with flared jeans and a checked top?

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5Pop culture

The sixties and seventies was a pop culture reflected by psychedelic colors that even made its way into fashion; check out the colors of clothes on the girls. Hot pants were the in thing. The bicycles were long handled then just like your BMXes.

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