Pink beaded dress with gold lamé belt

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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 drop waist dress with a boatneck made from magenta silk crepe with a beaded grid pattern decorating the front and back bust. The front bust is one panel, sewn to the back panel at the side seams. There are three snaps closures at the right shoulder. A grid pattern made with clear glass seed beads covers the front of the bust and has hanging beaded loops at every other grid corner. There is a decorative belt attached to the dropped waistline made from one panel of gold lame and one panel of pink silk crepe loosely twisted together. A pink crepe rosette is attached on the proper right of the waist band and a gold tassel made from cording wrapped with gold metallic thread hangs from the crepe rosette. The waistband joins together under the rosette with two metal hooks and eyes.

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