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Woman's Evening Ensemble: Cape, Top, and Pants

1971
Designed by Kansai Yamamoto (Japanese, 1944–2020)
The macramé cape seen here is Kansai's version of the long, fringed shawls and capes that were in vogue both as high fashion and anti-fashion in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. The hippie look was popular in Japan for a brief period among the futen-zuko (Vagabond Tribe), a youth subculture modeled on American hippies that emerged during the summer of 1967.

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