Object: Man's jacket
Designer:
Beau McCall
Date: 1990s
Medium: Denim and buttons
Country: USA
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 2021.4.1
DescriptionLevis Type III denim trucker jacket with button embellishment at collar, shoulders, placket, pockets, waistband, cuffs and back trim; long sleeves, button flap breast pockets, slash pockets, button cuffs and adjustable button waist tabs
Label Text:Beau McCall embellished a classic denim jacket with buttons in the colors of the Pan African flag. Created in 1920, the flag represents people of the African Diaspora. Africana Studies professor Michael Hanchard states that it symbolizes the membership of Black people “in a world of communities, a world of nations.”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties