Object: Shorts
Brand:
Phelps Deep Country Clothes
Date: c. 1954
Medium: Cotton denim
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Phyllis Feldkamp
Object number: 85.62.1
DescriptionShorts: tan, navy blue striped cotton denim; bermuda, riveted belt loops; large patch slant pockets left and right side front; 60 cm bottoms; topstitched zipper, two snap left front closing
Label Text:“Deep Country Clothes” was a specialty line created by fashion designer Elizabeth Phelps during the 1950s. Designated as “occupational leisure-wear,” the line was aimed at the fashionable housewife. This label was one of many that attempted to align denim with the lifestyle of postwar suburbia.
Exhibitions:
- Denim: Fashion’s Frontier