Strapless cream net cocktail dress with gold accents

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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 strapless cream net cocktail dress with gold accents. The dress has a sweetheart neckline and is made of cream nylon tulle, the tulle is pleated horizontally along the top of the bust. Synthetic net with gold metallic supplementary wefts is sewn below the pleated nylon tulle which continues to the waistline. The top of the skirt features a panel of the same fabric that is narrower at the center front and wider at the sides. The same synthetic nylon net used at the top of the bust is sewn below the synthetic net on the skirt panel. Synthetic net with gold metallic supplementary wefts is sewn to the back of the dress and continues onto the skirt panel, ending fourteen inches above the hem at the center back. The net with gold threads is longest at the center back and is shorter at the sides. Cream nylon tulle is sewn below the synthetic net.

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