Olympic warm-up jacket worn by Marilyn White

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An Olympic warm-up jacket made by Wilson Sports Equipment and worn by Marilyn White at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The jacket is mostly blue with a red and white stripe at the waist and around each arm cuff. The jacket has a collar and a zipper that runs the length of the middle of the jacket. White and red lettering that reads: [USA] runs across the chest. The [S] is split in half by the zipper. There is a pocket with a metal zipper that has a medium size chain on the left side of the front of the jacket. A tag on the interior collar is white with red and blue lettering that reads: [Wilson / Sports Equipment / Made in U.S.A / Wilson Sporting Goods Co. / Medium]. The back of the jacket is blank.

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