Flower Power Swimming shorts
Clothes for Men
Inventory number
2022.2.7.8.CM.SW.C1970.EUDescription
Men's swimming shorts in synthetic terrycloth of mainly orange colour, with a print of white flowers with yellow centers, brown branches and leaves. A small oval pocket is sewn inside the belt on the right.Donation from the ERDOTEX group, European leader in the revaluation of used textiles, as a part of a partnership in the selection by Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation of the most emblematic pieces, in order to illustrate the history of fashion and to look at these pieces from the angle of Art work.
Such type of garments enters in the stylistics of so called "Flower Power" fashion, initiated from the slogan used by hippies during the 1960s and 1970s. The expression came from the 1967 Summer of Love, a gathering in San Francisco during which hippies were instructed to wear flowers in their hair and distribute them around them.