Blazer worn by Official Hostess at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles
name: label: wearer
content: Lind, Marla Ann
label: maker
content: Levi Strauss and Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Blazer style women's jacket is blue with long sleeves, double knotched lapels and one button center front closing. Made of medium blue polyester and lined with off-white synthetic material. Two lined pockets, one on each side of front. Three decorative buttons on lower end of each sleeve. All buttons are gold colored with the Olympic rings in relief. On upper left side of front is appliqued blue diamond shaped patch with "XXIII / OLYMPIAD / Los Angeles / 1984" stitched in bright pink and white. Additional metal lapel pin located on right lapel. In the design of three stars and Olympic rings. Is enameled in red, white, and blue and dated 1980. This was part of a coordinator-hostess uniform worn by the donor, Marla Lind, for the 1984 Summer Olympic games in Los Angeles, California.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 1984 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in Los Angeles, California with 140 countries participating. These Games were boycotted by fourteen countries, including the Soviet Union because of America’s boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. American Carl Lewis won four gold medals in track and field while Joan Benoit won gold for the U.S. in the first women’s marathon. Mary Lou Retton dominated women’s gymnastics becoming the first American to win the gymnastics all-around competition and the American men won the gold in the gymnastics team competition. With the addition of women’s only events of rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming and the addition of women’s events in track and field, shooting and cycling, women athletes were just beginning to see results from Title IX legislation of twelve years prior. The United States won the medal count with 174.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: level of sport
content: Olympics
label: web subject
content: Women
label: related event
content: Olympic Summer Games: Los Angeles, 1984
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Marla Ann Lind
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0943.02
label: accession number
content: 1984.0943
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0943.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blazer
label: Object Name
content: blazer, olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: polyester (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (buttons; lapel pin material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in; 69.85 cm x 41.91 cm