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It was displayed in the V&A's Streetstyle exhibition of 1994-95 to represent lesbian style of 1993-94.\r\n\r\nThere are various terms used within the gay community to describe particular styles of dress and appearance. For example, \"butch\" may be used to describe an exaggerated masculinity in both male and female dress. Inge's friends described her style as \"butch-dandy\", because she wore men's jackets, shirts and trousers, but with flamboyant ties and cuff links. She acknowledged her African ancestry with dreadlocked hair and brightly coloured head-wraps, and also wore lipstick.\r\n\r\nInge used her clothes to make political statements about race and sexuality. 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She said of this outfit:\r\n\r\n\"My friends describe my style as butch-dandy: classic men's jackets, flamboyant ties, cuff links, bright head-wraps, and of course, lipstick! I wear dreadlocks to show respect for my African ancestry. My clothes carry codes for my sexuality which will be too subtle for those narrow minded people who find lipstick, dreadlocks and a black skin incompatible with lesbianism.\"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Jacket, navy worsted, Seeley, Rapid City, United States, 1990s","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Surfers, Soulies, Skinheads & Skaters : Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties","id":"AUTH352425"},"details":"","free":"Described in the exhibition publication, part of an outfit called 'Lesbian Style UK 1993-4'."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Ready to wear","id":"THES48866"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["T.710-1994"],"accessionNumberNum":"710","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1994,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-08","recordCreationDate":"2011-01-07","availableToBook":true}}