Oxfords
The "Peacock Revolution" of the late 1960s had opened the door to increased variety and self-expression in menswear, and even as more conservative styles began to predominate by the late 1970s, a wider range of choices was available to those wanting it. Worn by a television fashion director, presumably a man with an elevated dedication to the latest styles, this pair of shoes combines two trendy elements of the period: the jazz-shoe style and the jelly sole. As an inexpensive, distinctively colored, all synthetic item of limited timeliness, the shoes can be understood as a response to the accelerating consumer culture and material disposability of 1980s.
Artwork Details
- Title: Oxfords
- Manufacturer: Crayons
- Date: ca. 1982
- Culture: American
- Medium: synthetic fiber, plastic
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of George Drew, 1988
- Object Number: 2009.300.3900a–d
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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