Turquoise sleeveless dress with floral print

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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 turquoise sleeveless silk crepe de chine dress with floral print. The dress has a boat neckline and has a small shoulder seam ending in a triangular panel on each shoulder. Two vertical shaping darts fourteen and a half inches long start at the bust and end at hip level. The dress has a sheath silhouette and no waist seam. A thirteen-and-a-half-inch long metal zipper is machine sewn along the proper left side seam and starts below the armscye. Multicolored floral print in an illustrative design is printed on the bottom third of the dress. The bottom nine inches of each side seam are left unsewn which create side slits. The back of the dress has a waist seam; the top panel is gathered along the seam. Two shaping darts seven inches long are sewn below the waist seam. The dress has a muslin slip dress sewn along the interior.

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