Shorts
c. 1971
Cotton denim
Gift of the Nancy Hariton Gewirz Collection
Object number2016.20.3
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.
DescriptionDenim jeans shorts with frayed hem, embellished with embroidery and appliques overall, four black nautical buttons and one silver at CF closureExhibitions