Object Details
- Caption
- These colorful clogs lift the wearer as if standing on a six-inch-high plateau. Contrasting double stitching joins leather panels in rich red (heel and tongue), cream (toecap), goldenrod (upper and square-toed sole), and light avocado (vamp), akin to the connected, chromatic blocks of a Mondrian painting. As explorations of gender expression expanded in the late 1960s, platform shoes gained popularity among women and men in the United States, a fad that persisted for the next decade. Their height also helped hems of the era’s bell-bottom pants hover above the ground. This pair belonged to former Anacostia Community Museum staff member Pearline Waldrop, whose colleagues remember the stylish graphic designer wearing them at work.
- Cite As
- Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Pearline Waldrop
- ca. 1972
- Accession Number
- 1996.0007.0001
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- shoes
- Medium
- leather, wood
- Dimensions
- Right shoe: 9 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 5 11/16 in. (23.5 × 6.4 × 14.5 cm)
- Left shoe: 9 3/16 × 2 9/16 × 5 11/16 in. (23.4 × 6.5 × 14.5 cm)
- See more items in
- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Record ID
- acm_1996.0007.0001
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dl8882fd2e4-bf41-4225-ba75-0fd3529d139d
