Footloose and fancy free on Footprints
It is 1964 and the world is your oyster. These young women are enjoying themselves at a friend’s 21 st birthday party in Ōtāhuhu in 1964. With the excitement and verve of the 1960s young women stepped out into the world with different expectations and hopes than previous generations. In the years to come the momentum for change increased, many women challenged the norm, dared to be different, and in doing so created a revolution. Ref: Lew's, Birthday Party, 1964, photograph reproduced courtesy of Val Lott, South Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries, Footprints 06490. “I’m young and I love to be young I’m free and I love to be free To live my life the way that I want To say and do whatever I please” You don’t own me , Lesley Gore, 1963 .