Dress worn by Phyllis Diller
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content: <p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: This A-line metallic yellow, brown, and silver dress was worn with yellow gloves, yellow and gold shoe boots, and a cigarette holder with a wooden cigarette by comedian Phyllis Diller. While Diller’s signature prop was a cigarette holder, it only ever held a wooden prop cigarette; she was a lifelong non-smoker.
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label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>
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content: Phyllis Diller is wearing this costume in an image featured on postcards that she gave out to fans when she was traveling. Diller did not sign these postcards, but on the postcards was printed, in her handwriting, “Best Wishes Phyllis Diller.”
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label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Humor
label: Subject
content: Comedians
label: Subject
content: Comedy
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Phyllis Diller
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Phyllis Diller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0289.08.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0289
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0289.08.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
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content: synthetic fibers (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metallic fibers (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: back: 31 1/2 in; 80.01 cm
label: Measurements
content: shoulder: 6 in; 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: sleeves: 10 in; 25.4 cm