Army mess dress blue jacket worn by Louis J. Beasley

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

A navy blue mess dress jacket worn by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley. The jacket is double-breasted, with a notched collar and a wide lapel. The black lapel color indicates the branch (Infantry). The jacket has six (6) gold buttons, three on each side, and on each button is the crest of the United States. The cuffs of the jacket are trimmed with two (2) narrow horizontal bars of gold sleeve braid, above which there are scrolled Austrian knots made from four (4) strands of gold sleeve braid. The inside of the jacket is lined with navy synthetic fabric. There is a horizontally oriented inset breast pocket at each interior front side.

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