Women's Plateau Clogs
Object Details
- Date
- ca. 1972
- Medium
- leather, wood
- Dimensions
- Right shoe: 9 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 5 11/16 in. (23.5 × 6.4 × 14.5 cm)
- Left shoe: 9 3/16 × 2 9/16 × 5 11/16 in. (23.4 × 6.5 × 14.5 cm)
- Cite As
- Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Pearline Waldrop
- Caption
- These colorful clogs lift the wearer as if standing on a six-inch-high plateau. Contrasting double stitching joins leather panels in rich red (heel and tongue), cream (toecap), goldenrod (upper and square-toed sole), and light avocado (vamp), akin to the connected, chromatic blocks of a Mondrian painting. As explorations of gender expression expanded in the late 1960s, platform shoes gained popularity among women and men in the United States, a fad that persisted for the next decade. Their height also helped hems of the era’s bell-bottom pants hover above the ground. This pair belonged to former Anacostia Community Museum staff member Pearline Waldrop, whose colleagues remember the stylish graphic designer wearing them at work.
- Accession Number
- 1996.0007.0001
- Type
- shoes
- See more items in
- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- acm_1996.0007.0001
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