Title

Teal blue dress and cropped jacket designed by Ann Lowe, 1950s. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Ann Cole Lowe (1898-1981) was the first African American to become a noted fashion designer. Teal blue floral brocade dress (.1) and cropped jacket (.2) worn by Florance Colgate Rumbough Trevor. The dress (.1) is made from a teal blue silk satin with an all-over brocaded medium-scale design of scattered flowers with leaves and stems in shades of pink, blue, copper, and green. The dress is strapless with a plunging V at the back of the fitted bodice. A self-fabric band is sewn across the front at the natural waist which continues down each proper side of the skirt to the hem. The skirt is nearly flat in the front but is heavily gathered into small pleats at the back. It has a slight train at the center back. Self-fabric pre-tied bows are sewn down the sides of the skirt on top of the self-fabric band, three on each side.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21A78_143

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

138,8Mb (3,6Mb) / 19,6in x 27,5in / 5886 x 8241 (300dpi)

Keywords

people black country pattern museum color design location century textiles fabric silk textile African American African-American afro-american satin fifties 1950s United States of America Colour Patterned floral pattern 20th century heritage American America USA brocade decade object united states Unknown Lowe Ann cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art Trevor National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC dresses jackets dress: silk satin silk faille gauze buckram and metal fasteners jacket: silk satin gauze and metal fasteners Ann Lowe Ann Cole Lowe Ann Cole Florance Colgate Rumbough Trevor Florance Colgate Rumbough Florance Florance Trevor Rumbough Florance Colgate