polo shirt
date: label: date made
content: 1994
name: label: user
content: Shepard, Matthew
label: maker
content: J. Crew
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Matthew Shepard was a college student, targeted for being gay, robbed, and brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998. Matt was particular about his clothes and dressed well. The Shepards had 3 boxes of Matt's clothes in storage (pants, shoes, shirts). This shirt seemed to capture his stylish spirit of the time. In the 1990s, J. Crew was a popular brand of clothing, associated with "prep" style. The shirt would have been too large for him. He wore large, bulky clothes after he was raped by a gang of men while on spring holiday in Morocco during his senior year of high school.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Black knit polo style shirt, size L with three black plastic buttons at neck and light blue and white stripes at edge of collar and sleeves. Red paper dry cleaner style tag attached at back of neck, reads "4 704." , J. Crew brand.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Hong Kong
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dennis and Judy Shepard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0004.13
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0004.13
label: accession number
content: 2019.0004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: polo shirt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton; plastic; paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 in x 32 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 71.12 cm x 81.915 cm x .635 cm