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Kashmiri shawls recut into coats indicate the persistence of the West's use of the shawl as an exotic basis for functional apparel. In the 1960s, India provided Western enthusiasts with a mystical attitude fueled by the cultures of music, hippie spiritualism, and drug-inflected idealism.
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Title: Coat
Date: 1959–63
Culture: Indian
Medium: wool
Credit Line: Gift of Diana Vreeland, 1979
Accession Number: 1979.435.6
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