trousers
date: label: Date made
content: 1973
name: label: user
content: Hann, Catherine
notes: label: Description
content: Donor Catherine Hann (born Huynh bach Thuy) wore these pants while fleeing Vietnam in 1981 aboard a fishing boat. Hann's father, who had worked in a South Vietnamese military hospital in Rach-Gia, had been sent to a "re-education camp" in 1975. Hann, a high school biology teacher, and her husband decided to leave the country, but they failed twice before their third attempt finally succeeded. Hann's friend made these pants for her in 1973, when she was a student at the University of Science in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). She wore them in Vietnam and then later during her five months in the United Nations refugee camp on Pulau Bidong, Malaysia. Additional materials from Hann are held by the Archives Center (collection NMAH.AC.0921).
label: Description
content: Black twill; waistband; center back opening; fastens with black nylon zipper and two flat hooks and eyes at waistband; fitted around hips; very flared legs; narrow hemmed leg bottoms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Viet Nam
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Catherine Hann
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0120.002
label: accession number
content: 2006.0120
label: catalog number
content: 2996.0120.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Trousers
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Trousers
label: Object Type
content: Lower Body
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall:;