dashikis

My mother had bouffant hair and poodle skirts, my dad rocked dashikis and handlebar sideburns.

Danielle Moss Lee: Low-Hanging Pants and Other Phenomena Danielle Moss Lee 2011

My mother had bouffant hair and poodle skirts, my dad rocked dashikis and handlebar sideburns.

Danielle Moss Lee: Low-Hanging Pants and Other Phenomena Danielle Moss Lee 2011

My mother had bouffant hair and poodle skirts, my dad rocked dashikis and handlebar sideburns.

Danielle Moss Lee: Low-Hanging Pants and Other Phenomena Danielle Moss Lee 2011

The archetypal gay wedding portrait -- a pair of middle-aged women or paunchy men looking uncomfortable in rented outfits worn at the wrong time of day -- is destined to be hung in the same gallery of dated images of social progress alongside snapshots of flappers defiantly puffing cigarettes and Kodachromes of African Americans wearing dashikis.

When You're Desperate 2009

My mother had bouffant hair and poodle skirts, my dad rocked dashikis and handlebar sideburns.

Danielle Moss Lee: Low-Hanging Pants and Other Phenomena Danielle Moss Lee 2011

My mother had bouffant hair and poodle skirts, my dad rocked dashikis and handlebar sideburns.

Danielle Moss Lee: Low-Hanging Pants and Other Phenomena Danielle Moss Lee 2011

But from the end of June through the middle of July you can spot people in everything from urban hipster flannels and porkpie hats to dashikis as they make their way from their residence, high on a hill overlooking the Hudson Valley, to a long, red former dairy barn across the road that has been converted into artists 'studios.

Artists Roaming the Neighborhood 2010

Because I first heard it as a groovy sixties-era flower-child anthem from the musical Godspell, the tune inevitably begins to play in my head along with images of long-haired Jesus freaks with tie-dyed dashikis and dazed smiles.

Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

They travel the world with their parent's money, of course so they can get Guatemalan sweat pants or African dashikis.

Mike Gellman: Jammin' on the One Mike Gellman 2010

She stalks about the dining room in cut-off, blue-jean shorts and gauzy dashikis.

The Forgetting Room 9 2010