Decade ("60s" or "sixties"), although this may leave it uncertain which century is meant. These references are frequently used to encapsulate popular culture or other widespread phenomena that dominated such a decade, as in "The Great Depression of the 1930s" or "The Roaring Twenties". However, the Gregorian calendar begins with the year 1. (There is no year "zero", and the year before AD 1 is 1 BC with nothing in between.) Therefore, its "first" decade is from AD 1 to AD 10, the "second" decade from AD 11 to AD 20, and so on. So, although "the 1960s" comprises the years
1900s in Western fashion veil for driving and sailor hats worn for tennis matches, bicycling and croquet. This decade marked the full flowering of Parisian "haute couture" as the arbiter of styles and silhouettes for women of all classes. Designers sent fashion models or "mannequins" to the Longchamp races wearing the latest styles, and fashion photographs identified the creators of individual gowns. In 1908, a new silhouette emerged from Callot Soeurs, Vionnet at the house of Doucet, and most importantly, Paul Poiret. The styles were variously called "Merveilleuse", "Directoire", and "Empire" after the fashions of the turn of the nineteenth century, which they resembled