U.S. National Team Basketball Warm-Up Suit worn by Evelyn Jordan
date: label: date made
content: 1955
name: label: user
content: Jordan, Evelyn
label: maker
content: Bobcock-Stroud Co
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Basketball warm up suit consisting of a blue satin jacket and long blue satin pants worn by Evelyn "Eckie" Jordan in 1955 at the Pan American Games held in Mexico City, Mexico. "Eckie" was a star guard for the Hanes Hosiery AAU teams in the 1950s winning the 1951, 1952, and 1953 AAU national titles. The team won 102 consecutive games in the early 1950s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: North Carolina, Winston-Salem
topic: label: name of sport
content: Basketball
label: level of sport
content: textile league
label: web subject
content: Women
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hanes Hosiery, Inc., through Robert E. Simms
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0159.02
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0159.02
label: accession number
content: 1982.0159
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Warm-up Suit
label: Object Name
content: basketball warm-up suit
label: Object Name
content: warm-up suit, basketball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, satin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 27 1/2 in x 22 in; 69.85 cm x 55.88 cm
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 39 1/4 in x 19 1/2 in; 99.695 cm x 49.53 cm