jacket
date: label: date made
content: ca 2000
notes: label: Description
content: This costume was worn in a performace of "Amor En Tiempos De Anti-Amor" at En Las Tablas Performing Arts (ELTPA). ELTPA was founded in 2006 by donor Maritza Nazario and Milka Ramirez to provide affordable performing arts classes and professional artistic training opportunities to people in the Hermosa neighborhood of Chicago. Nazario, originally from Puerto Rico, came to Chicago to persue a graduate degree in theater, because there were no such programs on the island. Once in Chicago, she found that there was community interest in bilingual theater productions, but no training programs. Meanwhile Ramirez, also born in Puerto Rico but raised in Chicago, was a social worker for the Chicago Public Schools and observed that the arts could have a profound impact on youth. She began to incorporate the arts into her practice and wanted to create a space for young people who would not typically have the opportunity to participate in such programs.
label: Description
content: This costume was acquired as part of the museum's Latino Clothing and Identity Project, which ran from 2008-2009.
label: Description
content: Object physical description: Red linen/rayon blend with floral cutouts and beads; casual, unstructured; v-neck with band edge forming ties at base of v; open front; side darts; cutouts in the shape of roses and leaves border opening and hem; red embroidered stems and clusters of red beads surround cutouts and form centers of flowers; three-quarter length sleeves, fitted at top; just above elbow small section of sleeve sides gather and flare out to bell shape; floral and leaf cutouts and beads just below gathering on sleeve sides; unlined.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
topic: label: referenced
content: Latino
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Maritza Nazario
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0176.001
label: accession number
content: 2009.0176
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0176.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jacket
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Upper Body
label: Object Type
content: Jacket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen/rayon blend (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/2 in x 17 in; 49.53 cm x 43.18 cm
label: Measurements
content: sleeve inseam: 13 in; 33.02 cm