Gold knit dress and sweater designed by Patrick Kelly

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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 gold knit dress and sweater designed by Patrick Kelly. The sleeveless full length fitted dress (a) is made of gold synthetic knit with gold metallic thread. The dress has a round neckline, a half inch wide self-fabric band is sewn to the edge of the neckline and the armscyes. The back of the dress has a low scoop neckline. All the interior seams are finished with machine overlock stitching. The single fold hem is hand sewn to the interior. A woven fabric label is sewn to the center back interior at the proper left side of the low back. The label reads [PATRICK KELLY / PARIS] the text [MADE IN FRANCE] is woven vertically to the left side of the text. The sweater (b) is made of the same gold synthetic knit with gold metallic thread. It has a wide self-fabric turtleneck collar. The collar has a center back seam.

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