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Museum object · Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Blue denim jacket

ca. 2000

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A blue denim jacket. The jacket has a collar and opens in the center front with six metal buttons on the proper left side. A yoke is sewn on the front and back of the jacket, a five inch wide patch pocket with a self fabric flap is sewn below the yoke on each side of the center front opening. The pocket flaps close with a metal button. Below the yoke each side of the jacket is made of three narrow panels. The long sleeves end in one and a half inch wide cuffs. A five inch slit is at the bottom of each sleeve and closes with a metal button and buttonhole on each cuff. A one and a half inch wide self fabric waistband is sewn to the bottom of the jacket.

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Catalog reference: 2007.3.899

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