AMS 21: Objects and Everyday Life

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AMS 21 Objects and Everyday Life

• Object Studies, Week 2
• Bird Hats Zoot Suits Fashion Fights as
  Cultural Conflicts

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Object 1 The Bird Hat
Object 2 The Zoot Suit
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The Victorian White Male and His Hat
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Considering the Hat as a Cultural Artifact
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The Essential Hat for Women, circa 1900
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Fancy Hats Hidden Cultural Messages?
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The Bird Hat
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Bird Hat Styles Department Store Presentation
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Womens committee, Brooklyns First AME Zion
Church, undated
Unidentified women, 1920s South Carolina
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Hadassah luncheon, unknown women
Paulina, Anna, and Gitel Forman, circa 1900
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Restaurant ads, 1873 1885
Looking to Nature, 1830-1850
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1869 1850-1880
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Material Culture What Can we See in the Bird Hat?
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Elizabeth Hurley friend, People Weekly (1998)
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Object 2 Zoot Suits
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Conditions for Riots 1 Demographics
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Conditions for Riots 2 Geography
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Mexican American Neighborhoods Riot Map
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Condition 3 Fashion
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Zoot Beginnings The Jazz Lovers Drape, 1920s
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Film Clip PBS American Experience

• Zoot Suit Riots

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Mexican American Youth Zoot Suits, wartime LA
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World War II Sailors in Uniform
Mexican American Youth Zoot Suits, wartime LA
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5,000 Civilians Join the Riots, Los Angeles 1942
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Stripping the Zoot Suits, LA 1942
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Material Meanings Zoot Suits in 1942
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Fashion as Resistance? Lessons from 1942