Dress shirt donated by Soul Train dancer Thomas "Tom Tom" Evans: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This white dress shirt is similar in appearance to one worn by dancer Thomas "Tom Tom" Evans on the television show "Soul Train."

The shirt is a white tuxedo style dress shirt with a pleated front chest. The shirt closes down the center front with six (6) clear plastic round buttons. Above the second and third buttons are small black plastic decorative removable buttons, which are the only buttons displayed if the shirt is worn under a formal jacket. The shirt has a banded, wing-tip collar. The full-length sleeves have slit cuffs that close with a single clear plastic button.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: after 1992
• Manufactured by: Lucasini, American, founded 1992
• Subject of: Soul Train, American, 1971 - 2006
• Type: dress shirts
• Medium: cotton and polyester
• Dimensions: H x W x D (On form): 34 7/8 × 25 × 13 1/2 in. (88.6 × 63.5 × 34.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Flat): 34 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (87.6 × 52.1 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Clothing and dress
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Rhythm and blues (Music)
• Topic: Soul (Music)
• Topic: Television
• Topic: Variety shows (Television)
• Object number: 2015.30.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Thomas "Tom Tom" Evans
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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