Object: Top
Date: c. 1970
Medium: Leather
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of the Nancy Hariton Gewirz Collection
Object number: 2016.20.1
DescriptionOrange / brown leather halter top with burnished Pyrography technique of fairy and flower, backless bib style, self ties at neck and sides, curved hem with CF point
Label Text:Each of these garments has been personalized by hand. Hippies used embroidery, patches, and hand-worked leather to create a distinctive style aesthetically opposed to the shiny, plastic, mass-manufactured products of postwar consumerism. They also gravitated toward denim for its working class connotations and often bought it secondhand. Clothing was a tool of protest for hippies – a way for them to make an immediately recognizable political statement.
Exhibitions:
- Power Mode