Light blue knit dress and jacket with piano brooch

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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.

A light blue knit dress (a), jacket (b), and metal piano brooch (c). The light blue knit dress features a rounded neckline, and an A-line, sleeveless silhouette. There is one panel for the front and two panels for the back, sewn together at the side seams. There is a dark gray decorative beaded trim around the neckline, forming a series of upside-down crescent moon shapes that creating a subtle sweetheart shape. Gray glass bugle beads form the outline of the beaded trim, which is filled with gray glass seed beads, and small groups of blue plastic beads. The front panel of the dress has two horizontal bust darts and two shaping darts. The dress has a light lavender synthetic knit base with a powder blue machine knit overlay made from synthetic yarn (acrylic yarn and monofilament thread) that covers the entirety of the dress.

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