Watercolor costume sketch by Lemuel Ayers for the musical, St. Louis Woman

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A watercolor sketch by Lemuel Ayers of a costume for the musical "St. Louis Woman", as performed in 1946. This costume is for the character "Girl #7." At the center of the sheet of paper is a light sketch in pencil painted over in watercolor of a woman wearing a pink dress with a patterned full length skirt, a white pleated bodice with a high, ruffled collar and a brooch at the neck, a pink jacket with ruffled sleeves in a leg of mutton style (very full at the shoulder and narrow from elbow to wrist), a flower rosette at her waist, and a pink hat with yellow brim decorated with flowers and bows. The woman is wearing maroon colored shoes, and she is holding a pink parasol by the handle in her left hand and the tip in her right hand.

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