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Turquoise Suede Shoes Image of a pair of turquoise suede wedges sold by Neiman Marcus under the in-house junior's brand Nonesuch in the 1970s.
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Braniff International Airways Uniform 1967 Full Pucci ensemble including the boots modeled by Braniff air stewardesses.
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Braniff International Airways "Air Strip" Advertisement displaying the "Air Strip" that stewardesses would perform in the plane cabin. Emilio Pucci created the uniform with six outfit changes in mind. A part of Braniff's mission to create "the end of the plain plane".
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Pride Parade A marcher at New York’s Pride parade, on the twelfth anniversary of Stonewall.
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Stonewall Riots On June 28, 1969, a raid by the police and a subsequent uprising at the Stonewall Inn,
in Greenwich Village, helped change the course of L.G.B.T.Q. history.
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“Homo Revolt ‘Don’t Hide it’, The Homosexual Revolution of 1969
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Boots Boots, physical object, 1968; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30322/: accessed
November 6, 2020), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library,
https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Visual Arts + Design.
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Property where Side Stepper was found in Austin, Texas The donor, Barentine J.P. III found the shoes abandoned in a property he bought located at 610 East 3rd Street in Austin, Texas . The donor purchased the property from Roger S. Hanks and William B. Houston in 1979. The shoes fit the donor at the time but they were dated so he never wore them but kept them in a box. The shoe was donated to the UNT Texas Fashion Collection in 2016.
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Dandyism LIFE magazine Sept 1970 Life Magazine publishes negative article on the Dandyism movement - "Dandyism has returned wear ruffles buy yourself a purse".
Peacocks and Dandies were criticized for their flamboyant, gender neutral clothing choice “The distress of many journalists, ready-to-wear makers, and retailers over the Peacock Revolution was firmly rooted in American traditions of gender-role socialization, by which boys were inculcated at the earliest possible age with orthodoxies of masculine behavior and identity—including gender-specific dress. Any deviation from these norms called into question the young man’s psychological health and could indicate a mental disorder, homosexuality, a condition regarded as particularly unacceptable in the United States by medical science, criminal statute, and especially religious dogma.”
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Gender neutral fashion. Ebony March 1975 Gender neutral fashion in the 60’s and early 70’s . Flagg Bros Catalogue Ebony March 1975
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Gender neutral fashion Ebony May 1973 Gender neutral fashion in the 60’s and early 70’s . Flagg Bros Catalogue Ebony May 1973
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The Side Stepper Ebony Magazine October 1975 (2) The Side Stepper in Flagg Bros Catalogue Ebony Magazine October 1975. The Flagg Brothers store is mentioned in Billy Joel’s song - Keeping the faith.
Even Elvis "The King" owned a pair of Flagg Bros shoes
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Flagg Bros Shoe Store Flagg Bros Shoe Store in Nashville Tennessee. Flagg Bros catered to a niche market as evidenced by their catalogues that featured mostly African American models and the Ads they ran in African American magazines like JET and EBONY. The little sign that reads, AUTHENTIC STYLE FOR MEN, speaks to the way Flagg Bros marketed their products. Some of these products were gender neutral shoes and clothes.
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The Side Stepper Ebony Magazine October 1975 Flagg Bros Catalogue with the Side Stepper shoe in Ebony Magazine October 1975. The Price of the Side Stepper in 1975 was $17.76. The Flagg Brothers store is mentioned in Billy Joel’s song - Keeping the faith.
Flagg shoes were so popular that even Elvis "The King" owned a pair of Flagg Bros shoes
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The Side Stepper A pair of classic men’s black platform shoes with an Afrocentric twist