Ensemble
1970 - 1971 (made)
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Blue denim jeans and matching waist-length jacket. Yellow cotton T shirt. Choice of scarves in red & white and lilac & white. Black leather belt. Wool-nylon blend socks and canvas plimsolls.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 10 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | denim, cotton, wool & nylon blend, canvas. |
| Brief description | Man's ensemble, 1970-1971, USA; Lee; blue denim jacket; Levi Straus blue jeans. With yellow cotton t-shirt, 1960s, USA, BVD; two printed cotton scarves; black leather belt with metal buckle; pair of Burlington cream calf length wool nylon socks; pair of white canvas Admiral plimsolls, English |
| Physical description | Blue denim jeans and matching waist-length jacket. Yellow cotton T shirt. Choice of scarves in red & white and lilac & white. Black leather belt. Wool-nylon blend socks and canvas plimsolls. |
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| Production type | Ready to wear |
| Gallery label | Label from Fashion from Nature exhibition, V&A, 2018:
A THIRSTY CROP
Since the 1960s jeans have been an everyday staple of dress for people of all ages, with millions of pairs produced annually.
Growing the cotton to manufacture them requires astonishing amounts of water, which is provided by rainfall and irrigation. Unless irrigation is efficiently managed, it can exhaust local water supplies, harming communities and ecosystems.
Lee jacket
Levi Strauss & Co. jeans and leather belt
USA, before 1971
Cotton denim
V&A: T.715&A, E-1974
Given by Robert LaVine through Cecil Beaton
BVD T-shirt
Admiral sneakers
USA, before 1971
Cotton and rubber
V&A: T.715B, H, I-1974
Given by Robert LaVine through Cecil Beaton(2018) |
| Credit line | Worn and given by Mr W. Robert LaVine |
| Object history | RF number is 1970/3752 Part F/4. Worn and given by W. Robert LaVine to the Cecil Beaton collection. Historical significance: A complete ensemble from 1970-71 representing a total key look of its time. It is very fortunate that we have the handkerchiefs, T-shirt, socks and plimsolls worn with it. W. Robert LaVine (1920-1979) was a theatre costume designer and aide to Cecil Beaton. He designed costumes for the musicals "Maggie Flynn" (1968) and "Jimmy" (1969) as well as having responsibility for reproducing Beaton's set and costume designs for the 1976 revival of "My Fair Lady" at the St. James Theater. He was also the archivist for the Paramount Pictures Corporation from 1972 onwards, and was Diana Vreeland's personal assistant in 1974 when she planned "The Glamour of Hollywood Design", an exhibition at the Costume Insitute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Aged 59, he died in Manhattan in 1979 following complications from heart surgery. Shortly before this, he had completed a book on Hollywood costume design, "In a Glamorous Fashion". |
| Bibliographic reference | Fashion : An Anthology by Cecil Beaton. London : H.M.S.O., 1971
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| Accession number | T.715-1974 |
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| Record created | July 17, 2007 |
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