Basketball Shorts, 1922-1924
date: label: date made
content: 1922
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: White bloomer style basketball shorts with elastic at the leg openings. This was part of a basketball uniform worn by the donor's mother, Dorothy Eda Hehnke, while attending high school in Nebraska from 1922-1924. Dorothy was so thin her team nickname was "Slats" and her mother attached suspenders to the bloomers so they would not fall down during games. Girls basketball was outlawed in Nebraska in 1926 and was not reinstated until the 1970s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: Nebraska, Paxton
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Basketball
label: level of sport
content: High School
label: web subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mary Jo Satterthwaite
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0482.02
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0482.02
label: accession number
content: 1990.0482
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shorts, basketball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: elastic (leg openings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 in x 32 in; 66.04 cm x 81.28 cm