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ca. 1990 (made)
Artist/Maker
Pam Hogg (designer)
Place of origin
London (retailed)

Intercut cotton and Lycra body suit, multiple colours of fabric carefully pieced together to create long sleeved, mid-calf, form-fitting garment. Wearer would have donned it via the neck.

Object details

Categories
Images Online
Fashion
Womenswear
Textiles
Scotland
Europeana Fashion Project
Streetstyle Exhibition 1994
Caribbean
Object type
Body
Materials and techniques
Cotton and Lycra, intercut
Lycra
Cotton Fibre
Brief description
Body suit, mutlicoloured cotton and lycra, designed by Pam Hogg, retailed in Newburgh Street, London, ca. 1990
Physical description
Intercut cotton and Lycra body suit, multiple colours of fabric carefully pieced together to create long sleeved, mid-calf, form-fitting garment. Wearer would have donned it via the neck.
Dimensions
  • Waist circumference: 62cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Bust circumference: 72cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Nape waist length: 40cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Sleeve length length: 56.5cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Cuff circumference: 16cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Lower hip circumference: 82cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Outside leg length: 79cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Inside leg length: 65cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Crotch depth (front waist to back waist through crotch) length: 47.5cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Hem circumference: 19cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
Production typeReady to wear
Marks and inscriptions
'PAM HOGG' (Label in neck of garment)
Gallery label
(November 2023)
Lavender Labels in Scottish Design Galleries, V&A Dundee:

Pam Hogg’s designs were first sold in the boutique Hyper Hyper in Kensington, London before she founded her own store, off Carnaby Street, where this body suit was purchased. Hogg’s collections are defined by wit and a defiant DIY punk ethos, using fabrics that reference the queer fetish scene such as PVC, lycra and leather. Her unmistakable looks embrace androgyny, body positivity and nonconformity. A Blitz kid and glam-fetish icon herself, amongst those she has dressed include Siouxsie Sioux, Debbie Harry, Beth Ditto, Kylie Minogue and Sin Wai Kin (FKA Victoria Sin). In 2014 she dedicated a collection to political, feminist and LGBTQ+ activists Pussy Riot.
Object history
Registered File number 1994/285, Streetstyle exhibition 1994-1995, in the exhibition it was part of an outfit (8) called 'Street Style 1993-4 UK' (includes the pendant T.1015-1994 and the trainers T.176-1995).

Outfit compiled by Pam Hogg for the Streetstyle exhibition held at the Museum in 1994-1995. Influences: Ragga, Cyberpunk and Fetish.
Production
Retailed in Newburgh Street, Soho, London
Bibliographic reference
Surfers, Soulies, Skinheads & Skaters : Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties Described in the exhibition publication, part of an outfit called 'Street Style 1993-4 UK'.
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.149-1994

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Record createdNovember 12, 2002
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O69898/body-pam-hogg/
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