Patsy Cline's Costume
date: label: date made
content: ca 1958
name: label: user
content: Cline, Patsy
label: maker
content: Hensley, Hilda
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Made for country music star Patsy Cline by her mother, this Western-style performance outfit features record-shaped patches stitched with the titles of Cline's records. Cline began singing with gospel and country bands as a teenager in Virginia. With her 1957 breakout hit "Walkin' after Midnight," she became the first female country vocalist to cross over to the pop charts. In 1960, Cline achieved her childhood dream of joining the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Three years later, she died in a plane crash.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>ink colored western-style shirt with black piping and adorned with hot pink rhinestones and black wool 'record discs' hand-stitched with the names of Patsy Cline's hit songs including "Come On In" [left shoulder], "Poor Man's Roses" [right shoulder], "Walking After Midnight" [back], "Stop the Worlds" [left leg]. and "Yes I Understand" [right leg]. This shirt was part of an outfit worn by Patsy Cline and made by her mother, Hilda Hensley.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Winchester
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: National Treasures exhibit
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0008.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0008
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0008.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shirt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rhinestones (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 1/2 in x 19 in; 57.15 cm x 48.26 cm