A red feather "lamp shade" style hat designed by Mae Reeves. The base of the hat is a blocked red felt wool form which is overlayed with feathers. Most of the feathers are dyed red, with brown pheasant feather accents interspersed throughout. There is a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.154
A fedora hat made from red wool felt. The hatband is made from a rayon Petersham ribbon with navy, red, and yellow horizontal stripes. The hatband is machine stitched to the hat with white thread. There is a gathered and pleated rosette sewn on the proper…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.495
A red felt bicorn style hat made by Vanilla Beane. The hat is composed of a single piece of stiff felt that has been folded up at the center front, and slightly PR back. The dome of the hat is cylindrical, with the raised brim attached at the top of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.141.3
A red skullcap made from fur felt. There is a decorative, tongue-like brim that extends from the right side of the hat and ends at the back left. A red felt band extends from the inner center front of the hat, overlapping the brim, and is stitched to the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.584
A single red flat with multicolored plastic rhinestones on the vamp. The right shoe is made of red synthetic faille and has sixteen plastic rhinestones on the outer edge. The top line of the shoe is bound with green synthetic fabric. The shoes are lined…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.1061
A red floral sheath dress with bishop sleeves. The full length dress is made of silk chiffon printed floral in red, white, pink, and grey. Machine embroidery made with synthetic thread of meandering curvilineal lines and circles covers the surface of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.381
A rayon red floral scarf. The square scarf has raw edges and is printed in a four-inch floral border with pink and yellow flowers with green stems. Small pink and red flowers printed with green leaves are printed inside of the border. A fabric label is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.1045
A red floral silk synthetic damask sleeveless qipao. The qipao has a Mandarin style band collar that has a slit at the center front. The front of the dress has a yoke with the front dress panel sewn below. Princess seams are sewn to the front of the dress…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.685
A red, green, and yellow plaid petticoat. The skirt is made from two main sections of acetate fabric that has an all over red, green, yellow, black, and white plaid pattern. There is a .25” wide panel of brown elastic sewn to the skirt yoke, and the yoke…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.929
A red wool felt hat with double rolled brim. The hat is made of blocked fur felt. The top of the crown is indented at the center, fitting close to the head. At the sides of the crown there is a band of gathering stitches that pulls the hat inwards at the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.430
Red fringed halter jumpsuit (.1) and shawl (.2) by Bruce Oldfield. The jumpsuit (.1) is constructed of two-inch wide vertical strips of red twilled crepe sewn together. They are separate from each other below the wearer's knees, creating wide fringe with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.141.8.1-.2
A red handkerchief top designed by Patrick Kelly. The top is made of one length of cotton synthetic blend with raw edges. The length of fabric folds in half along the width side. Two self-fabric bands are sewn at the center top of the shirt, slightly…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.9.14
A red hat with a beaded flower and an orange hat band. The base of the hat is made of buckram. The brim and the crown are made of separate pieces that are hand stitched together. The crown of the hat is short and rounded, it is made of a red synthetic…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.581
A red hat with a self-fabric bow. The hat has a flat oval crown. The brim is asymmetrical, it is wider at the front and narrower at the sides and the back. A self-fabric bow is sewn to the back of the hat at the bottom of the crown. Black threads are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.751
A blocked fur felt red hat with two bows. The hat is indented at the top of the crown creating a “telescoped” blocked shape. The brim of that hat is blocked to resemble a breton hat brim. There is a viscose satin ribbon where the crown of the hat meets the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.457
A red hat with an upturned brim and feather decoration. The hat is made from two panels of red fur felt that have been sewn together at the crown base and blocked to shape. The hat features a 3” wide upturned brim that has a length of metal wire sewn along…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.934
Red jumpsuit designed by Willi Smith for WilliWear Limited. The jumpsuit has a v-neck, a notched lapel collar, and short cuffed sleeves and is made of a red cotton fabric. There is a breast pocket on the proper left side with rounded bottom corners. There…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.155
A red knit dress with plastic buttons designed by Patrick Kelly. The dress is made of red rib knit cotton. It is sleeveless, has a round neckline, and is form fitting. Seam allowance and the raw edges of the shoulder seams are seen along the exterior. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.9.18
A red knit dress with rhinestones on the back designed by Patrick Kelly. The dress is made of red rib knit cotton. It is sleeveless, has a round neckline, and is form fitting. Seam allowance and the raw edges of the shoulder seams are seen along the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.9.20
A red knit dress with rhinestones on the front designed by Patrick Kelly. The dress is made of red rib knit cotton. It is sleeveless, has a round neckline, and is form fitting. Seam allowance and the raw edges of the shoulder seams are seen along the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.9.21
A red lace dress (a) with a matching cape (b). The main body of the dress is made from two panels of red synthetic machine bobbin lace fabric – one for the front and one for the back. The bobbin lace pattern features a repeat pattern of roses and this…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.973ab
A single dark red leather book with a side buckle. The boot features a rounded toe and a stacked wooden heel and there is a slight curve at along the top of the front panel. Three red leather panels create the outside of the boot, which are seamed together…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.1074
A red leather Delta Sigma Theta jacket owned and worn by Tobi Douglas A. Pulley. The jacket is constructed of dyed red leather shell and polyester lining. There s a large collar and a zipper down the front. There is white embroidered on the chest of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.49.1
A red leather jumpsuit designed by Aziza Braithwaite Bey for her Elena Braith label. The jumpsuit's silhouette has a loose fit around waist that tapers towards the ankle and wrist. There are tucks and shaping seams at the top neckline and shoulders. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2021.94.1.8
