dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1972-1984
name: label: maker
content: Ruffins, Fath Davis
notes: label: Description
content: Large floral print in three shades of green with yellow accents on a cream background printed w/a narrow horizontal dark green band w/yellow floral designs used around the top and a wider border of floral design on dark green around the bottom edge; sleeveless, w/straight top edge, F & B, and wide self-fabric straps over each shoulder; somewhat flared from top to bottom edge; slit up L (?) side; measures 45.5" down CB. Top lined in sheer white cotton to midriff.
label: Description
content: Donor Fath Davis Ruffins was a curator at the NMAH. Garments such as this one speak to her exploration of her family history and identity, along with the political and social movements of the time. She bought fabric for this dress at a shop on Georgia Ave., close to Howard University.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: used
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Fath Davis Ruffins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0175.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 1-Piece
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall center back: 45 1/2 in; 115.57 cm