The fur caveman vest of the late 1960s fascinates me because it became the mainstream media's go-to symbol of hippiedom -- right down to Sonny Bono sporting one to fake countercultural cred -- and yet it was nowhere to be seen on actual hippies.
The best part is the older generations still hadn't managed to grasp the whole beatnik thing, so they simply folded it into their idea of what hippies were.