Top
c. 1970
Leather
Gift of the Nancy Hariton Gewirz Collection
Object number2016.20.1
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.
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 pointExhibitions