Gray jodhpur-style chaps worn by Nona Hendryx

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This piece is part of a costume was worn by Nona Hendryx in the music video for her solo single of "Love is Like an Itch in My Heart" in the early 1980s. The costume consists of a yellow hooded headpiece (.1), a yellow bodysuit with a wide black belt (.2ab), and gray jodhpur-style chaps with a black leather waistband (.3abc). Chaps (.3abc): The silver jodhpur-style chaps are a modified construction with two separate legs (.a, .b). Each leg piece is wide at the thighs and tightly fitted from below the knee to the ankle. The black leather waist band (.c) attaches around the inner side of the legs only, with the outer side of the legs left loose to drape down on the outside of the thigh. The inner sides of the fronts and backs of the legs are not seamed together, leaving them open on the inner thigh.

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