ARTH 302: Fashioning Power (SP 2021)

Dress designed by Ann Lowe

Dress designed by Ann Lowe. Silk, chiffon, taffeta, net, metal, and elastic, ca. 1960. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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