Lounge suit

Caraceni|Valerian Stux-Rybar

1964 · wool · Costume Institute

The Nehru jacket enjoyed popularity as menswear in the 1960s, in part as a sign of approval of modern India's democratic and progressive spirit under Nehru. In the Mod and early hippie period, global exoticism, especially when inflected with the spiritual, affected dress and introduced Native American, Eastern, and African elements to the clothing vocabulary of both men and women. In this instance, a nineteenth-century shawl, turned wrong side out, has been remade into a Nehru jacket.

Artist

Caraceni|Valerian Stux-Rybar

Date

1964

Medium

wool

Culture

Italian

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Valerian Stux-Rybar, 1974