Forest green embroidered jacket and coordinating pants by Brioni

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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.

Men's embroidered forest green velvet jacket (.1) and velvet green pants (.2) by Brioni. The jacket (.1) is double-breasted with a standard collar and notched lapel. It falls below the hip with a double-vented back. The sleeves are full-length and taper toward the wrist with a slit cuffs that are sewn shut. It is made from a forest green rayon velvet embroidered in an all-over small-scale meandering floral vine design with burgundy, green, and yellow flowers and accents of metallic gold on the flowers and the leafy vine. The jacket closes at the center front waist with two (2) snaps. Four (4) self-fabric decorative buttons are sewn at the center front waist, two one each front side. Four (4) smaller self-fabric covered decorative buttons are sewn in a tight row at each sleeve cuff over the sewn slits.

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