Cream dress with blue embroidery and gold bird 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 cream dress with blue embroidery and a gold bird brooch. The sleeveless shift dress (a) is made of cream linen blend. It has a round neckline, the armscyes are finished with blue self-fabric bias tape. A five and a quarter inch bust dart is sewn below each armscye. Blue cotton thread is couched to the bottom half of the dress in undulating floral and leaf motifs. A metal hook and eye and a twenty-one-inch plastic zipper with metal teeth are sewn to the center back of the dress. A center back seam continues below the center back zipper. The dress is faced with peach synthetic along the top, along the neckline and armscyes. The center back seam has pinked edges. The hem has a single fold and is finished with a cream synthetic ribbon which is machine sewn with running stitches and overcast machine stitching.

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