Black velvet dress with pink and silver decorations 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 black velvet floor-length dress with pink ruffled and beaded decorations designed by Peter Davy. The dress is fitted through the waist and hips, with a straight sheath skirt that has a long slit at the center back. The bodice has a sweetheart neckline with thin straps. The straps and the front and back neckline edges are trimmed ins silver cord, pink bead, and silver sequin embellished trim. The left bust is covered in heavy beading and sequins in pink with small clusters of silver. A small rosette made from a layer of pale pink over a larger layer of darker pink pleated organza is sewn at the proper left waist with a cluster of pink beads and sequins in the middle of the rosette. An oversized rosette using the same pale pink over darker pink pleated organza is sewn with the center of the rosette at the proper right side just above the waist, so that the rosette is centered at the proper right side, extending over the front and back bodice. A large cluster of heavy beading and sequins in pink and silver is placed at the center of this rosette. The dress closes at the center back with a black metal and plastic zipper. One (1) metal snap is used to fasten part of the dark pink large rosette across the zipper opening on the proper left back side waist.
label: Description
content: The dress is fully lined in black synthetic fabric. Boning is sewn between the facing and the lining around the bodice, six (6) pieces total. There are no labels in the dress.
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: 2007.3.109
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, organza, sequins, and beads, with metal and plastic fasteners
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (flat): 56 1/2 × 22 × 1 1/2 in. (143.5 × 55.9 × 3.8 cm)