Beaded jacket and black pants by Stephen Burrows

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Beaded jacket (.1) and black pants (.2) by Stephen Burrows. The jacket (.1) is collarless with decorative lapels, full-length straight sleeves, and a hemline at the natural waist with a short slit at the center back. It is covered all over in glass bugle and seed beads, except on the undersides of the sleeves which are faced in black chiffon. The beaded design consists of oversized green grass blades running around the bottom of the jacket body and the bottom sleeves. A ground of silver and very pale pink swirling beads is above the grass on the sleeves and body. Six (6) abstract female figures in black beading stand in profile in the grass up to their waists, each with a large golden rhinestone at her posterior, a cluster of red seed beads at her breast, and a small cluster of blue seed beads to make her eye.

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