dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1971
name: label: maker
content: Crew, Sandra P.
notes: label: Description
content: Caftan; abstract print on textured fabric, in reds and orange, with black and white curvy vertical bands, and gold vertical borders and accents; round neck; deep in F; set-in long sleeves, w/gathers at shoulders; ruffles at sleeve bottoms formed by wde elastic bands sewn in w/several rows of stitching; floor-length A-line shape; CB opening fastens w/orange nylon zipper, approximately 19.5" in length; narrow, turned-up hem.
label: Description
content: Donor Sandra P. Crew made this caftan out of her future husband Spencer's dashiki. She wore it to her graduation from Brown University in 1971, while Spencer wore the dashiki and eyeglasses in this accession (.002 and .003). Spencer later became the Director of the National Museum of American History and in 2019 served as the Interim Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Originally acquired for use in the exhibition "Men and Women: A History of Costume, Gender and Power" which ran from June 28, 1989 to February 24, 1991 at the National Museum of American History.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: worn
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
topic: label: used
content: Graduation
label: used
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sandra P. and Spencer R. Crew
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0135.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall center back: 51 in; 129.54 cm