dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1970-1985
notes: label: Description
content: Print on dark gold background in black, blue, wine, yellow, and white consisting of bands of flowers surrounded by elaborate border designs, alternating w/medallions of various geometric shape; round neckline w/slit down CF fastened by black metal hook and eye; deep set-in short sleeves w/diamond-shaped gusset at armpit; squared border design used along shoulder and around sleeve; garment very slightly flared from armhole to bottom. Deep slit, 22" from hem up R side seam; border pattern band attached over each side of slit, giving squared border across knees and down R side of garment, F & B. Style called dashiki.
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. Her father often traveled to countries such as Nigeria for work, and on one such trip, he brought back the fabric which Ruffins used to make this garment.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: used
content: African American
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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: 1989.0175.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 1-Piece