In the era of hippie fashion, mind-altering drugs influenced visual culture. Though Jeanne designed primarily in natural fibers, her DMT dress was made of a synthetic material for the sake of the psychedelic print. The print, she says, was supposed to invoke the visual experience of taking the hallucinogenic drug DMT or Dimethyltryptamine. The above image of the dress was taken while on display for the Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion and Rock & Roll exhibition at the de Young.

As one of the “original 600 hippies,” in San Francisco, Jeanne experimented with psychedelic drugs—though not to the same extent as many of her peers who did not have children. “I did a lot of LSD which changed my life,” she remembers. Jeanne’s own description of why she took LSD speaks to the attitude toward psychedelics among the hippies in general: “I took LDS to delve into my inner psyche.” Liane Chu remembered a similar experience with taking acid. The hippies experienced a greater sense of connectedness with the inner and the earth through their hallucinogenic trips. The psychedelic swirling prints for clothing and band posters at the time reflect this.