Metallic gold dress with cascading ruffle collar 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 metallic gold dress with a cascading ruffle collar designed by Peter Davy. The dress has a short-sleeved fitted bodice with a dropped waist and a plunging V-neck in the back. It is made from a gold synthetic fabric overlaid in semi-sheer metallic gold synthetic fabric. A v-shaped panel of black fabric overlaid in black net is sewn at the center front bodice with the net extending above the solid black fabric slightly in a scalloped line. The panel is embellished with metallic gold embroidered flowers, iridescent silver sequins and seed beads, and silver rhinestones. The panel is trimmed on each side in a row of large faceted iridescent silver sequins with a seed bead in the middle of each sequin. This same embellishment of sequins and beads in a row is sewn around the waistline where the fitted dropped waist joins a gathered full skirt made from the sheer metallic gold fabric, but with no under layer of the solid gold fabric. The bodice has short dolman sleeves, which are hidden by a wide pleated ruffle of the sheer gold fabric that begins at the center of each side of the back bodice and extends over the shoulders and down the front bodice around the embellished black panel. This ruffle and the hem of the skirt are trimmed in thin metallic gold braided tape. The dress closes at the center back with a yellow metal and plastic zipper, with one (1) black metal hook-and-eye at the top of the zipper.
label: Description
content: The dress is not lined beyond the under layer of gold fabric. Long hanger loops made from metallic gold cord are sewn at each interior shoulder seam. 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: 2007.3.82
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: synthetic fiber, synthetic net, foil thread, sequins, rhinestones, beads, and braided tape, with metal and plastic fasteners
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (flat): 53 1/4 × 24 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (135.3 × 61.6 × 8.9 cm)