Documents Tagged ‘counterculture’


“What Gay Women Wear”

Archive Entry Date: March 1971

Interviews with gay women combat gendered clothing stereotypes.

Introduction to Laurel’s Kitchen

Archive Entry Date: 10/1/1976

From a vegetarian cookbook, the story of how the kitchen could become the center of a spiritual and societal transformation

Living on the Earth

Archive Entry Date: 3/1/1971

Alicia Bay Laurel's guide to self-sufficient living

Portrait of Liane Chu

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

Liane, the "hippie daughter," did not dress to please her parents — though they later came to understand the changes afoot

Advertisement for ‘Truth and Soul’ clothes

Archive Entry Date: 1971

Who was behind these hip acrylic threads? The sprawling corporation Monsanto

Advertisement for ‘Tads’

Archive Entry Date: 1971

Hippie fashion goes nation wide.

Rags Magazine: The Hair Issue

Archive Entry Date: April 1971

The SF-based countercultural fashion mag, on "hair & the law"

Young Man with Drawing on Glasses

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

In an altered pair of eyeglasses, a skewed sense of humor

A Few Folksy Fashions

Archive Entry Date: 5/25/1968

Dressing San Francisco musicians landed Jeanne a spread in Rolling Stone

The Red Square

Archive Entry Date: 1966-1969

Liane and her boyfriend lived in their apartment turned dress shop, making soup in the hallway and sewing in the bedrooms

Costume Design and Patterns Book

Archive Entry Date: 1967

Liane Chu took fashion inspiration from a broad range of world cultures

Jeanne’s Second Business Card

Archive Entry Date: 1967

When Jeanne's son asked to see her business cards from back in the day, she was hesitant to show him this one!

Jeanne’s DMT Dress

Archive Entry Date: 1967

The pattern of this dress replicates the visual experience of hallucinogenic drugs.

Sunbear Speaks

Archive Entry Date: 1967

The Oracle's oracle: an "Indian medicine man" who testified to the Native American way of life

Berkeley’s Jeanne Colon: Designer

Archive Entry Date: 1967

Jeanne Rose, rock icon Janis Joplin, and Liane Chu flaunt Rose's designs for the SF Chronicle

The Banner for the Red Square

Archive Entry Date: 1968

Liane designed a colorful appliqué banner for the Red Square to grab the attention of passers by.

Peter Albin in Jeanne Rose custom design

Archive Entry Date: 1966

A "Dr. Strange cape" for Big Brother's guitarist: one of Jeanne Rose's many fashion statements

Photograph of Jeanne Rose’s Menswear

Archive Entry Date: 1966

Jeanne is credited with inventing the men's pullover shirt

Photograph of Jeanne in the San Francisco Fog Suit

Archive Entry Date: 1966

The perfect thing to wear cruising through the city in a convertible with the top down!

Program of “Miss Chinatown U.S.A.”

Archive Entry Date: February 7th, 1965.

At her mother's request, Liane competed in the Miss Chinatown Pageant.