Man's jeans
Brand
Levi Strauss
(American, founded 1873)
c. 1970
Cotton denim, leather, suede, and silk
Gift of the Nancy Hariton Gewirz Collection
Object number2016.20.12
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.
DescriptionMan's five pocket button fly denim jeans with embellished patchwork in leather, suede and mix prints, gusset creates bell bottoms, logo buttons and studsCollections
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