suit, 2-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1978
notes: label: Description
content: Main dress; entire body; Klein; black and off-white tweed; jacket woven in small check, skirt in tiny zig-zag weave; fitted jacket has double breasted center front opening; hip length; fastens with one row of black buttons at waist; notched collar with narrow lapels; bound breast pocket on left; long sleeves with vertical slit at lower edge; trimmed with three black buttons along slit; shaped with eight vertical panels of fabric; left and right front panels have darts to bottom edge; left and right back have darts from shoulder; lined in black fabric; shoulders lightly padded; SKIRT has set-in waistband with stitching at upper edge; fastens with black button and buttonhole above metal slide fastener; seam pockets at left and right sides; outside edges of pockets trimmed with stitching; box pleats from waistband on either side of center front, straight skirt with two seams; double darts on either side of center back; lined in black fabric
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Janet W. Solinger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0046.02
label: accession number
content: 1986.0046
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Suit, 2-Piece
label: Other Terms
content: Suit, 2-Piece; Entire Body; Main Dress; Female