More performer than fashion plate, her trademark image was a helmet-like bob and exaggerated eye make-up
Of all the decades of the 20th century the 1960s is probably the most picked over by historians. It was crammed with social and cultural change; in many countries it marked a break with the past, a kicking over of conformist traces and a cementing of modernity. Peggy Moffitt, who has died aged 86, was one of the most fashionable faces of the middle years of that packed decade. Margaret “Peggy” Moffitt was born in Los Angeles in 1937; her father was a screenwriter and film reviewer.
The questions raised by feminist writers about whether the sexual revolution of the Sixties was liberating women or opening them to new forms of exploitation were yet to reach the mainstream. Moffitt always sidestepped such issues. “I’m not political,” she told an interviewer in 2013. “They said ‘Have you burnt your bra?’ I said ‘I don’t have a bra’.” In 1965 she moved to Europe, spending 12 months working in Paris and London.
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