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Flagg Bros Shoe Display Flagg Bros. ad for All American shoes (top right) and American flag high tops found in Massachusetts. (Provided by Ebay user douglasvaleri).
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Bowling Ad from Harper's Bazaar. Verfurth , Emily. “Strikes, Spares, and Gutter Balls: A History of Women's Bowling in Twentieth-Century America.,” 2012.
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Nixon Baradaran, Mehrsa. “A Bad Check for Black America.” Boston Review, August 8, 2018. http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-race/mehrsa-baradaran-bad-check-black-america.
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Richard Nixon
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Interview with Elizabeth "Betsy" Drew Audio of Elizabeth "Betsy" Drew recounting her experience shopping the Nonesuch brand at Neiman Marcus.
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For the Outspoken Few Flagg Brothers advertisement featured in a 1970 Ebony Magazine. The center text "For the outspoken Few" is a clear indication of the niche community they hope to reach.
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Flagg Shoes Aren't For Everyone Flagg Brothers advertisement featured in a 1970 Ebony Magazine. Notice the exclusive language in describing the shoes as "not for everyone" at least "not yet."
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Joe Barentine Image of a unique outfit by Joe Barentine 1970. This outfit includes the above-mentioned platform shoes.
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Charles Jourdan Boots
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All American Shoe Front view of the shoe.
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All American Shoe Side View
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Excerpt from "Minding the Store" A passage from Stanley Marcus' memoir, featuring a letter he wrote to defend his position on the issue of young men being able to wear long hair at school.
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Letter from Stanley Marcus An Neiman Marcus advertisement featuring a letter from Stanley Marcus, responding to a young girl who enjoys shopping the Nonesuch brand with her big sisters.
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Nonesuch advertisement An advertisement for a wedge shoe sold by Neiman Marcus under the in-house junior's brand Nonesuch.
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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