dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1993-1994
name: label: used by
content: Foote, Shelly J.
label: purchased at
content: Woodward & Lothrop
label: maker
content: Plaza South
label: designer
content: Kathie Lee
label: maker
content: Plaza South
notes: label: Description
content: White; round neckline, front and back; set-in short sleeves, pleated at shoulders; shoulder pads on insdie; box pleat at outside sleeve bottom, with 2 covered-button trim; inset section of Battenburg lace at center bodice; double pleats at right and left bottom of bodice, front and back; center back opening, extending into peplum and skirt yoke beneath; fastens with 8 covered buttons, the last two in center back peplum; zipper closure in skirt yoke placket beneath peplum; waistline seam; snap at back neckline; hook and eye at back waistline; peplum edged in Battenburg lace; inverted pleat in center front and center back skirt; knife pleats around remainder of skirt.
label: Description
content: Label text: Kathie Lee for Plaza South / 55% Ramie / 45% Cotton / RN 52438 / CN 001 / Made in China / No Wring or Twist / Dry Flat Warm Iron / or Dry Clean / Style 080201 / Size 12
label: Description
content: Donor Shelly Foote noted that she purchased the dress for doing demonstrations of Scottish Country Dancing, where traditionally white dresses are worn with tartan sashes. She wore it for the first time at the Virginia Scottish Games for a demonstration on the stage.
label: Description
content: She also noted that when she realized that the dress had a Kathie Lee label (Kathie Lee Gifford's branded fashion line was accused of using sweatshop practices in 1990), she decided to offer the dress to the museum for use in exhibits or programming around the issue of sweatshops.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used in
content: United States: Virginia, Alexandria
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Shelly J. Foote
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0177.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 1-piece
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Dress
label: Object Type
content: Entire Body
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: center back length: 48 1/2 in; 123.19 cm
label: Measurements
content: waistline: 33 in; 83.82 cm