Brown and cream dress with gold and silver embellishments designed by Peter Davy
date: label: Date
content: 1980s
name: label: Designed by
content: Peter Davy, Saint Vincentian, 1944 - 1990
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: A brown velvet and cream knit dress with silver and gold beading and sequins designed by Peter Davy. The dress is sleeveless with a high neck and a standing collar. The collar, upper front bodice, and hips are made from a low pile brown velvet. The front side waist and back bodice are made from a cream synthetic knit fabric. A full skirt with a high-low hem reaching below the knee in the front and to the floor in the back is made from the cream knit fabric. Lines of gold and silver sequins are sewn onto the brown velvet front bodice and hips, emanating from a large stylized floral burst of gold and silver beads and sequins sewn at the center front waist. Four (4) smaller stylized floral clusters of gold and silver beads are sewn across the upper portion of the brown velvet on the back of the dress. A row of sequins and beads trims the arm openings and the standing collar. The dress closes at the proper left side seam below the arm to the hip with a cream metal and plastic zipper. Two (2) gold thread loops are sewn to the proper left front side of the standing collar, likely for fastening hooks that are no longer present on the proper left back side collar.
label: Description
content: The dress is not lined and there are no labels.
place: label: Place made
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: Fashion design
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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 - Fashion and Historical
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: 2007.3.108
objectType: label: Type
content: dresses
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: velvet, synthetic knit fiber, sequins, and beads, with metal and plastic zipper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (flat): 56 1/4 × 23 × 1 in. (142.9 × 58.4 × 2.5 cm)