These “granny” boots are a high fashion version of counterculture style, which embraced disparate elements of non-Western dress. The paisley pattern, traditionally associated with India, has in these boots been modernized with the artificially bright colors of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

  November 27, 2007 - May 7, 2008

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Tony the Shoemaker, “Granny” boots, printed rayon challis with gold-tone metal, c.1970, USA, 97.60.40, gift of Herbert and Beth Levinephotograph by Irving Solero.