Costume gown for Glinda the Good Witch in The Wiz on Broadway
date: label: Date
content: 1975
name: label: Designed by
content: Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian American, 1930 - 2014
label: Created by
content: Grace Costumes Inc., American, founded 1961
label: Worn by
content: Dee Dee Bridgewater, American, born 1950
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: This gown with a full train is part of a costume worn by Dee Dee Bridgewater as the character Glinda in the Broadway production of "The Wiz". The gown has exaggerated medieval trumpet sleeves, and the train is heavily gathered in the back with a ruffled hem. The gown is made of a light pink chiffon sewn on top of flesh-colored netting, with appliquéed floral patches and pink rhinestones hand and machine sewn to the garment. A silver zipper runs down the center back. Flexible boning is sewn inside the hem to give the skirt and train weight and to shape the ruffles. There is a loop of the pink fabric sewn to the center back of the train hem to allow the wearer to hold up the train by the loop. The floral patches sewn on the breasts contain a small piece of cotton batting tucked into the patch. The gown is not lined.
place: label: Place used
content: New York City, New York, 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: Musical Theatre
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Black Fashion Museum Collection
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2007.3.11.1
objectType: label: Type
content: gowns
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: synthetic fiber, net (textile), and chiffon
label: Dimensions
content: On form - without train extended: 66 × 50 × 10 1/2 in. (167.6 × 127 × 26.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: On form - with train extended: 66 × 50 × 28 in. (167.6 × 127 × 71.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: On form - with hat (b) and train: 92 × 50 × 28 in. (233.7 × 127 × 71.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (In box, padded out): 54 × 22 × 7 in. (137.2 × 55.9 × 17.8 cm)