Great Outfits in Fashion History: Jane Fonda in a Cool Beethoven Sweatshirt

Last Updated: 02 February 2022

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There are perfectly good celebrity style moments, and then there are the looks that really stick with you, the ones you try desperately to recreate at home. In 'Great Outfits in Fashion History,' Fashionista editors are revisiting their all-time favorite lewks.

Throughout the 50+ she's been in the public eye, Jane Fonda has worn many, many Great Outfits, several of which have been documented on this website, from the suede miniskirt and knee-high boots she wore in 1969 to the bright-red Brandon Maxwell suit she wore in 2018. We always knew the actor and activist was cool, but I hadn't realized she also invented hipster irony back in 1965.

Here she was (with actor Peter McEnery) wearing thick-rimmed rectangle glasses, braided pigtails and a crewneck sweatshirt with...Beethoven's face on it? Lol, random! Just kidding, she probably wasn't trying to be quirky in this outfit, but if this wasn't the look du jour of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2005...

Great Outfits in Fashion History: Jane Fonda in a Cool Beethoven Sweatshirt

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