Dress belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

Source catalog description

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

This is a patterned dress that Etta Moten Barnett wore in in a photograph by Van der Zee. The long dress has long bell sleeves and a high neckline. It has a thin patterned outer layer and a black lining. The outer layer has a black background with wide horizontal sections of pattern. Each horizontal section is banded at top and bottom by a double line of small blue flowers with a red center, or a double line of small red flowers with a blue center. In between are lines of small white flowers with a red center in a wave pattern and large red flowers with centers scattered throughout. There is a black fabric label sew inside the lining with white text that reads “STANLEY KORSHAK / CHICAGO.”

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