Green and blue dress with scarf by Yves Saint Laurent

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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.

Chartreuse and blue full-length dress (a) with scarf (b) by Yves Saint Laurent. The dress (a) is floor-length with a high rounded collar and full-length tapered sleeves. It is made from a wool and silk blend fabric in a pattern of large clusters of small chartreuse flowers on a dark blue ground with metallic supplementary threads in blue and chartreuse creating a textured woven design of large flowers. The fabric is gathered and pleated at the proper left front side waist. There is a slit at the proper left front side of the skirt reaching all the way to the waist. The sleeves are fitted tight around the wearer's wrist and close with a green zipper. The dress closes at the center back neck with one (1) rounded gold button and a green cord loop above a slit in the center back that is open below the single button closure.

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