Cream silk dupioni dress and jacket with embellishments

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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 silk dupioni dress and a jacket with embellishments. The dress (a) is full length and sleeveless. It has a boat neckline with a bust dart and a side front seam on each side. A five-inch embellished panel is sewn under the bustline and ends at the natural waist, it gets slightly narrower closer to the side seams. The embellished area is bordered with glass bugle beads and seed beads. Bugle beads are sewn in a lattice pattern with a glass rhinestone in a metal setting at each intersection. Alternating clear plastic beads and silver plastic sequins are sewn in a cross pattern inside of each diamond within the lattice pattern. Faux plastic pearl beads are sewn along the outside of each cross and along the border. The embellishments are sewn on a separate cream silk panel which is handsewn to the dupioni.

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