Object Details
- Description
- An ivory ribbed children’s dress. The dress features a square neckline with a scalloped edge and embroidered eyelets. There are seven eyelet holes down the center front with an ivory cotton ribbon laced through it. Four machine embroidered flowers – two on the proper right and two on the proper left – surround the laced front. There is an additional embroidered flower at each shoulder, surrounded by eight eyelet holes and scalloped embroidery. Each sleeve has a scalloped edge at the cuff. The bodice and sleeves are all one piece of ivory ribbed cotton that has been machine stitched to the back bodice at the sides. A 2” waistband made from the same ribbed material is machine stitched to the bodice and the front panel of the A-line skirt. The back neckline has a scalloped edge with embroidered eyelet holes and the construction of the back of the dress mirrors the front – one panel piece for the back bodice and sleeves, one panel of fabric for the ribbed belt, and one panel of ribbed cotton fabric for the A-line skirt. The dress hem is turned under and machine stitched to the inside of the skirt. The inside of the dress is unlined and there is no label.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
- Date
- 1960s - 1970s
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane
- Medium
- cotton with synthetic plain weave ribbon
- Dimensions
- Length (Shoulder to hem): 20 1/2 in (52.1 cm)
- Width (Sleeve end to sleeve end): 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm)
- Type
- dresses
