belt
date: label: Date made
content: 1955-1960
name: label: used by
content: Booth, Virginia
notes: label: Description
content: Black leather and elastic; wide curved band with spaced-out scallops along the top; black elastic bands attached to tapered ends of leather; right strip with enameled black rounded hooks; left edge strip with corresponding holes; patch pockets, sewn on at right and left sides of belt
label: Description
content: Marks: 10 550
label: Description
content: Donor Virginia "Jimmie" Booth was a buyer for Lord & Taylor and was involved in Lord & Taylor's American Look program of the 1930s to 60s. Wide leather and elastic belts were popular in the mid 1950s and early 1960s. Booth loved to wear wide belts because they emphasize a small waistline. Designer Claire McCardell, part of the American Look, showed wide belts in the early 1950s on both evening and cotton shirt dresses. Archival materials from Booth can be found in Archives Center collection NMAH.AC.0729.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used in
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: used in
content: United States: Connecticut
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Virginia W. Booth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0093.033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Belt
label: Object Type
content: Accessories Worn on the Body
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Belt
label: Object Type
content: Waistwear
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 67.31 cm x 12.065 cm