California Fashion
This exhibit explores the many differnt faces of California fashion over time. Drawing from everything from natural materials to borrowed apparal to recycled pieces, Californians have always been at the forefront of couture. The types of things California's have used to dress themselves tells you alot about them as individuls
Feathers for Every Occasion
Feather and fibers were important resources used by Caliornia Indians for clothing. Here you can see an Ohlone indivdual wearing a shirt of feathers and a flicker headband
Indian Dance at Mission San Jose
As with feathers and animal skins, body paint was an important form of decoration. Here Ohlone dancers are depicted with body paint
Vaquero Style
The vaquero stylishly rides the plains sporting a broad brimed hat and a serape
Working Clothes for the "Diggins"
Your average 49ers need clothing both stylish and practicle, so he would look good during all that digging for gold. In a few years a guy named Levi Strauss will make a fortune sell somthing called blue jeans
Spanish Flair
The Californios and Californias reatined their distinctive look despit the tital wave of blue jeans and flannel shirts pouring into California at the time
The six young women in this posed portrait are identified as "The Haymakers"
Northern California Indians, Daisy and Lena, six months after the missionaries came
Klamath Indian
