Summer dress
Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2018.7.31.20.CW.DR.C1965.FRAuthor:
Paris Diffusion (French)Description
Sleeveless hessian dress with orange suns print and buttoned on the shoulders with round nailhead buttons.Dresses in jute also called "potato dresses" symbolize the rejection of fashion. During the 1960s many fashion traditions broke, mirroring social movements of this decade. Fashions arising from small pockets of young people in a few urban centres received large amounts of media publicity, and began to heavily influence both the haute couture of elite designers and the mass-market manufacturers. Examples include, of course, the mini skirt or the pants for women, but also more experimental fashions less often seen on the street, such as PVC clothes and other Potato Sack Dress like this one (To learn more about Potatos dresses see below "Be beautiful in a potato sack” dress ).
Materials
JutePlastic
Origin
circa 1965 FranceRelated objects
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