Soul Train Flame blouse and skirt worn on Soul Train by dancer Cheryl Song: Museum Object and Cultural History
Soul Train Flame blouse and skirt worn on Soul Train by dancer Cheryl Song: Date: 1985. Created by: Tamechi (Toney) Briggs, American. Worn by: Cheryl Song, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
A purple lamé top (a) and multicolored fringe skirt (b), the “Soul Train Flame”, designed by Tamechi Briggs and worn by Cheryl Song on Soul Train, 1985.
The body of the top is made from a purple lamé and has a scoop neck design. The long sleeves are composed of wide bands of lamé in purple, blue, red, gold, and pink, with fringe at each shoulder in the same alternating colors. There is a zipper closure at the back neckline and interior shoulder pads. The skirt matches the shoulder fringe, composed of longer strips the same lamé fabrics attached to a thin purple waistband with a Velcro closure.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1985
- Created by: Tamechi (Toney) Briggs, American
- Worn by: Cheryl Song, American
- Subject of: Soul Train, American, 1971 - 2006
- Type: blouses
- Type: skirts
- Medium: lamé with metal and Velcro (TM) closures
- Dimensions: L x W (a): 18 1/2 × 14 15/16 in. (47 × 38 cm)
- Dimensions: L x W (b): 16 9/16 × 25 13/16 in. (42 × 65.6 cm)
- Dimensions: Waist (b): 25 13/16 in. (65.6 cm)
- Place used: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Clothing and dress
- Topic: Costume
- Topic: Costume design
- Topic: Dance
- Topic: Fashion
- Topic: LGBTQ
- Topic: Music
- Object number: 2020.41.3ab
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cheryl Song
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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