Black t-shirt for the band Almost September: Museum Object and Cultural History
Black t-shirt for the band Almost September: Date: 2008. Manufactured by: American Apparel, American, founded 1989. Designed by: Unidentified.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black crew neck fitted t-shirt with discharge-dyed splatters. There is one large splatter on the front of the t-shirt with scrollwork letters "A / S" screen-printed in black. The back of the t-shirt has a splatter at the center bottom with this same logo printed in black inside the splatter. The words "Almost / September" are screen-printed in silver at the proper left back near the hem. There is a manufacturer's tag and a second tag with fiber content and size medium text.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2008
- Manufactured by: American Apparel, American, founded 1989
- Designed by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Almost September, American, founded 2008
- Owned by: MC Lyte, American, born 1970
- Type: T-shirts
- Medium: cotton
- Dimensions: H x W: 25 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. (64.8 x 31.1 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Clothing and dress
- Topic: Fashion
- Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
- Topic: Women
- Object number: 2011.118.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of MC Lyte
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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