Red floral dress with bishop sleeves

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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 red floral sheath dress with bishop sleeves. The full length dress is made of silk chiffon printed floral in red, white, pink, and grey. Machine embroidery made with synthetic thread of meandering curvilineal lines and circles covers the surface of the silk chiffon. The dress has a draped boatneck collar and set in bishop sleeves with elastic at the cuffs. Three darts are sewn on each side of the center front bodice starting at the waistline with gathering sewn on the skirt panel underneath. The skirt panel has a center front seam that is off set to the proper left. This seam is unstitched eighteen and a half inches below the waistline creating a slit that continues to the hem. Four plastic faceted buttons with four fabric loops are attached to the center back of the collar.

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