Green brocade dress with rhinestones sequins and beads

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A green brocade dress with rhinestones, sequins, and beads. Brocade synthetic and metallic thread with organic floral patterning is used to make the dress's exterior. The dress has a band collar and two princess seams that run the length of the dress. The set in sleeves are wrist length and have small slits at the inner seam. On the back of each sleeve there is a dart at the inner sleeve seam below the elbow. Both the sleeves and the collar are adorned with plastic sequins, plastic beads, and glass and plastic rhinestones. Green plastic rhinestones are attached in curved lines that follow the weave of the brocade. Circle and emerald cut glass rhinestones are placed on the flowers and various points of the sleeves and collar. Sequins sewn in the shape of a flower with a string of glass beads at the center are stitched along the sleeves and collar as well.

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