Title
Rose pink shirt dress and belt designed by Arthur McGee, mid 20th-late 20th century. Creator: Arthur McGee.
Caption
Dusty rose pink wool shirt dress (a) and matching belt (b) designed by Arthur McGee. The A-line dress has a short standing collar decorated with lines of heavy top stitching in similar colored thread, a slit at the center front, elbow length sleeves, and falls just below the knee. The dress fits over the head, it has no fastenings. The dress is not lined except with self-fabric around the front yoke and front slit. There are no labels. The belt (b) is made from the same wool fabric as the dress. It is decorated at each end with the same lines of heavy top stitching as the collar of the dress, approximately nine (9) inches at each end. It is double-sided. In 1957, Arthur Lee McGee (1933-2019) was the first African American designer hired to run a design studio on Seventh Avenue in the Garment District in New York City.
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM21A73_439
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
130,3Mb (4,5Mb) / 18,6in x 27,2in / 5572 x 8172 (300dpi)