Yellow A-line dress with cap 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 yellow A-line dress with cap sleeves. The dress is made of synthetic fabric, it has a V neckline and cap sleeves with a pleat on each side before the start of the sleeve. Two darts are sewn on the front of the dress ending at the waist seam. The dress is gathered below the waist seam. A belt loop is on each side of the dress along the waist seam. The bottom half of the dress is made of ten panels. The dress has a five-and-a-half-inch single fold hem with a yellow synthetic ribbon seam binder. The ribbon is machine and hand whip stitched. The dress is machine sewn but is hand finished along the armscyes and seam binding at the waistline. The center back of the dress has a cut out with a panel of floral embroidered synthetic net. Two waist darts are sewn on the center back below the cut out.

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