trousers
date: label: Date made
content: 1970
notes: label: Description
content: The donor, born in 1957 in Jackson, New Jersey bought these jeans on sale for $4.50 in 1970 (almost $30 in 2020 dollars), when she was in the 7th grade. Although initially worn by men and associated with the West and ranching, in the 1930s the Levi Strauss company, creator of modern “jeans,” made and marketed them for women. In the 1960s, young people took to wearing jeans as part of a larger social movement against fashion, conspicuous consumption, and to signify their rebellion against their parents’ generation. Jeans became a wardrobe staple in the 1970s and young men and women continued wearing them as they wore out by patching them themselves. This is originally a form of what today we would call DIY fashion. Later this trend in clothing appears in films and television programs now associated with this era.
label: Description
content: The jeans are Wrangler and retain some elements of that brand (although she removed the label itself), but she modified them considerably, patching them variously and colorfully as an expression of personal style, to cover worn places, or both. They are well worn. She lengthened the legs so they would fit as she grew taller, rather than to wear with higher heeled shoes or boots, as she wore these jeans primarily with sandals or with sneakers and socks (also donated to the museum) as well as a white t-shirt (also donated), and a poncho.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Fashion
label: general subject association
content: Women's History
label: general subject association
content: Counterculture--United States--History--20th century
label: general subject association
content: Adolescence
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anonymous
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.306097.001
label: catalog number
content: 306097.001
label: accession number
content: 306097
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Trousers
label: Object Type
content: trousers
label: Other Terms
content: Trousers; Lower Body; Main Dress; Girl
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: flat: 43 in x 30 in; 109.22 cm x 76.2 cm
label: Measurements
content: part: inseam: 30 1/4 in; 76.835 cm
label: Measurements
content: part: waist: 25 in; 63.5 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, mounted: 42 in x 11 in x 9 1/2 in; 106.68 cm x 27.94 cm x 24.13 cm