Cream dress with blue embroidery and gold bird brooch
date: label: Date
content: 1965-1980s
name: label: Created by
content: Hazel Greer, American
label: Created by
content: Napier Company, American, founded 1875
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: A cream dress with blue embroidery and a gold bird brooch. The sleeveless shift dress (a) is made of cream linen blend. It has a round neckline, the armscyes are finished with blue self-fabric bias tape. A five and a quarter inch bust dart is sewn below each armscye. Blue cotton thread is couched to the bottom half of the dress in undulating floral and leaf motifs. A metal hook and eye and a twenty-one-inch plastic zipper with metal teeth are sewn to the center back of the dress. A center back seam continues below the center back zipper. The dress is faced with peach synthetic along the top, along the neckline and armscyes. The center back seam has pinked edges. The hem has a single fold and is finished with a cream synthetic ribbon which is machine sewn with running stitches and overcast machine stitching. A woven fabric label is sewn to the proper right side of the center back zipper along the facing. The label reads [HAZEL GREER / ORIGINAL]. The brooch (b) is made of casted metal painted gold in the design of a tree branch with leaves and rhinestones surrounded by two birds. An oval faux turquoise stone is set into the center of each bird. The text [NAPIER©] is embossed on the wing of the lower bird on the back of the brooch. A metal fastener is attached to the center back.
label: Cataloging Notes
content: This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Fashion
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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: 2007.3.361ab
objectType: label: Type
content: brooches
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: linen blend, cotton thread, synthetic faille, metal, plastic, and glass rhinestones
label: Dimensions
content: a: dress
label: Dimensions
content: Length (a: shoulder to hem): 41 in. (104.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Width (a: shoulder to shoulder): 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Waist (a: flat): 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: b: brooch
label: Dimensions
content: Length (b): 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Width (b): 2 in. (5.1 cm)