Tuxedo jacket from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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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 Reda tuxedo jacket from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The solidly black tuxedo jacket is double breasted with narrow lapels. The proper right lapel panel has a tab that crosses over the front, just below the chest, but is cut below to fall like a single breasted jacket. The jacket closes with two black plastic pearl buttons just below the chest. The tuxedo jacket has short, turned up cuffs with a single black pearl button at each cuff. The interior of tuxedo jacket is partially lined with black fabric with a satiny finish and striped woven texture over the breast panels and top back of the jacket. The two interior, welted, breast pockets have fabric tags sewn over each of them.

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