Short sleeve purple knit dress

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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 short sleeve purple knit dress. The dress is made of lightweight wool knit jersey and has short sleeves with an A-line silhouette. There is self-fabric piping around the neckline and waistline seam. There are no armscye seams; the sleeves are cut into the bodice panels. There is a vertical bust dart extending up from the waistline on each side of the bust. Two decorative self-fabric swirl details are sewn along the center front of the waistline seam. They are made of two thin tubes of the wool jersey that have been tightly rolled into two adjoining swirls. The skirt is gathered along the waistline seam. A twenty-one-inch zipper is sewn along the center back of the dress, the zipper has plastic teeth and a metal pull. The zipper leads into a center back seam. There are two pairs of metal hooks and eyes sewn along the zipper.

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