Georgetown Starter jacket
date: label: Date
content: 1980s
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Starter, American, founded 1971
label: Subject of
content: Georgetown University, founded 1789
notes: label: Caption
content: During the 1980s and the 1990s, Starter brand jackets were omnipresent fashion items within urban, African American communities. Starter was one of the mist high-profile non-sneaker sportswear brands. Because of the team’s success in the early 1980s, and because the team featured one of the few African American coaches, John Thompson II, who was an outspoken champion of using universities to create educational opportunities for African Americans, political positions espoused by their coach, John Thompson II, this team became one in which African Americans across the country adopted. These jackets became symbols of racial pride. At the time, many African Americans mistakenly identified Georgetown as an HBCU because it the team was a source of racial pride.
label: Description
content: A navy, long-sleeve, padded Georgetown starter jacket. The jacket is made of a shiny navy nylon fabric and is lined with white nylon. The waistband, the cuffs on the sleeves, and the band around the neckline are made of a 2 1/2 inch thick navy, grey, and white striped rib-knit fabric. There is one (1) navy snap below the neckline, three (3) down the center of the jacket, and two (2) on the waistband. There are grey and white embroidered letters across the chest. [GEORG] on the proper right and [ETOWN] on the proper left. There is a 5 3/4 inch slanted no-flap pocket on either side of the jacket above the waistband.
label: Description
content: There are two small, grey scuff marks on the proper right back of the jacket. The back of the jacket is solid navy.
label: Description
content: There is a white label sewn inside the jacket below the neckline. The Starter logo is in blue. The words [STARTER / MADE IN U.S.A. / ADULT] are in red and the letters [XL] are in blue.
label: Description
content: There is a second white label sewn inside the jacket on the proper left side above the waistband. The logo and the word [STARTER] are in blue. There is also the word [NAME] with a blank line [________] in blue. [SHELL & LINING: 100% NYLON] are written in red along with washing instructions.
label: Description
content: The Starter logo, an [S] and a star are embroidered in navy and white on the proper left sleeve, just above the cuff.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Basketball
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Education
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: Sports
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture 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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.5
objectType: label: Type
content: jackets
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: nylon and metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (on form): 34 × 29 × 13 in. (86.4 × 73.7 × 33 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (flat): 26 1/2 × 26 in. (67.3 × 66 cm)