So I think that my first style inspiration for fall will be the late ’60s folk singer Mimi Fariña. She was the sister of Joan Baez, and I had no idea that they were even related until I was watching a PBS documentary on Joan when I was on the treadmill last Saturday night (I’m exciting). The two sisters sang a Donovan song together, which I liked, but even more than the song I liked Mimi’s 1960s hippie/mod hybrid style. I love the smock dresses she wore, her perfect hair, and especially the casualness of her 1968 wedding in Big Sur, California.
1. Mimi with flowers, 1968 . . . . . . . . . 2. Joan Baez, Mimi Farina, and Judy Collins at the Newport Folk Festival, 1967 . . . . . . . 3. Mimi and Richard Farina . . . . . . . . . .4. Mimi and Bob Dylan (!) . . . . . . . . 5. Newport, 1965. . . . . . . . . . . 6 Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No poster. (with her sisters Joan and Pauline)
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I love all the pretty hats !! so in love with headdress right now :D
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I love looking at the photos! They’re so full of inspiration, with all the pretty dresses!
I’ll definitely have to check her out :)
I love this hippie attitude, would love to travel back to this time. Would love to revive this time.
Anyway, great pictures.
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She’s such a doll!
My parents had a record of her with Richard when I was a little baby… which I found at a record shop many years later, lovely stuff… so sad that he died when they were both so young, they seemed really in love. :(
If you sign up for Spotify, all her albums are available for free.
Ooh, thank you. Spotify’s one of those things I keep hearing about but have no idea how to use. I’ll give it a shot.
I actually like her better than Joan Baez, she was very talented (just as much as her sister). have you read Positively 4th Street? it’s very well written and made me fall in love with her a little bit.
Helene, I heard about that book and will have to read it! I definitely like Mimi’s voice better than Joan’s. Joan seems like a good person but was kind of grating in the Bob Dylan documentaries I’ve seen . . . always hanging around too long.
I do hope you’re taking inspiration for your wedding from her. We had ours in our garden when we were living up in the mountains and it was so beautiful, just trees and friends and lots of good wishes. I also made my outfit which included a pair of palazzo pants and a bustier that i embellished with handmade flowers so it looked like something from midsummer nights dream. it was pretty low key, not expensive, and everyone had a great time. so i highly recommend this hippy-mod (or hippy-circus in my case) approach!
April, that sounds really really great. The mountains would be a perfect spot for a wedding too. We’re having ours outside, and it will be pretty casual too, because anything too formal will just make me more nervous. I love the idea of Midsummer Night’s Dream inspiration.
i love that last photo, all the hats!! i love both their music!!
Music for every occasion!
that last image is to die for.
So glad you posted these!
I think they could just as easily be spring-summer inspiration for us Southern Hemisphere folks just starting to see the sun again. All the white and yellow and flowers and light easy dresses.
I gasped when I saw that picture of Mimi and Dylan… Wow!!! These photographs are all so beautiful x Katie-Louise
Me too!
oh that picture with the girls and their hats is so cute!
Have you ever read Positively 4th Street? It’s about Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Mimi and Richard Farina. Great read! I think you’d like it if you haven’t read it before.
No, but thank you! I’m going to see if my library has that one.
Amazing pictures! I didn’t know they were sisters…