White and silver costume worn on Soul Train by dancer Johnette "Suki" Dodson

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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.

This costume was worn by dancer Johnette “Suki” Dodson on the television show Soul Train in the early 2000s. The outfit is comprised of two (2) pieces, a hand-decorated bra (.1) and a pair of stockings (.2). The hand-designed bra (.1) is a hand-decorated white store-bought strapless underwire bra with heavily padded cups and a double hook-and-eye back closure. The bra is decorated with white machine-made lace, white and silver ribbon, and silver metallic cord. The silver cord is adhered in rows along the bottom half of each cup, with one undulating row across the upper part of each cup where the ribbon meets the lace. The wide ribbon is adhered across the top of each cup, with a row of the white lace, which has a deep scalloped edge, below the ribbon across the center of each cup.

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