Shirt worn by Sherman Hemsley as George Jefferson on The Jeffersons
date: label: Date
content: 1975
name: label: Designed by
content: Rita Riggs, American, born 1930
label: Designed by
content: Betsey Potter, American
label: Manufactured by
content: Hathaway Shirt Company, 1853 - 2002
label: Worn by
content: Sherman Alexander Hemsley, American, 1938 - 2012
label: Subject of
content: The Jeffersons, American, 1975 - 1985
notes: label: Description
content: This shirt is part of a suit worn by Sherman Hemsley as the character George Jefferson on the television show "The Jeffersons." The shirt is an off-white, long-sleeved, button-down dress shirt with a classic point collar. The shirt closes at the center front with seven (7) matching off-white plastic buttons, and there is one (1) v-edged pocket at the upper proper left chest. Each sleeve end is finished with a round cut cuff that fastens with two (2) off-white plastic buttons. The back of the shirt has one (1) center back pleat. At the interior base of the neck, broken threads indicate that a label was removed and the present smaller label with fiber content and care information was sewn here. Below this tag is a navy blue fabric tag with white embroidered text reading "Hathaway / Waterville, Maine". The shirt size is stamped in black ink on the interior proper left neckband. The letter "H" is machine-embroidered in red thread on the exterior proper left button band above the waist hem.
place: label: Place used
content: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Costume
label: Topic
content: Costume design
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Sitcoms
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.145.1.4
objectType: label: Type
content: dress shirts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: cotton, polyester, and plastic
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (on form): 32 5/8 × 21 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (82.9 × 54.6 × 29.2 cm)