Style and performance: The hippie icon is usually characterized with a man with long hair and beard much longer than what is considered "normal" for the time. Both sexes tended their hair long and black to imitate the style.

The majority of the society of the time, he considered these "long hairs" as an offense, or as synonymous with dirt, or some woman.

Wearing long hair for both sexes and their particular way of dressing, acting as a sign of belonging and a sign of their rebellious and countercultural attitude.

Other features associated with them were:

- Brightly colored clothing.

- Faded clothing.

- Long shirts, long skirts, pants with cuffs like "elephant foot."

- Indian or African clothing.

- Symbols or drawings as the flower of the American aborigines ..

- Many people make their own clothes as a protest against the consumer culture.

- Use of incense and recovery of the natural values of the plants.

- They gathered to play or compose music livery air parties at friends' houses.

- Living in communes.

He was a youth movement that took place in the last years of the 1960s and was characterized by nonviolent anarchy, concern for the environment and the rejection of Western materialism. The hippies formed a politically daring and counter anti-war, artistically prolific in the U.S. and Europe. His style psychedelic and colorful was inspired by hallucinogens such as lysergic acid (LSD) and was embodied in fashion, graphic arts, and music from artists like Janis Joplin or bands such as Love, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd.