White shirt with rhinestones worn by Verdine White of Earth Wind & Fire: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A white collarless men's shirt with full-length sleeves worn by Verdine White, bassist for Earth, Wind & Fire. The shirt is made from a semi-sheer white cotton and has side vents reaching approximately eight (8) inches from the hem. The shirt has a half-length center front closure with four (4) small round pearlized plastic buttons. White embroidery in a leafy vine design is stitched around the placket of the button band, the neck opening, and on the shoulder and sleeve seams. Fifteen (15) irredescent oval-shaped rhinestones are adhered to the shirt at even intervals within the embroidered border of the center front placket. Clear, round faceted rhinestones are adhered to the shirt within the embroidery design on each sleeve seam, with twenty-one (21) rhinestones placed at even intervals on each sleeve. A size tag was previously cut from the interior center back neck.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2004-2013
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Worn by: Verdine White, American, born 1951
• Subject of: Earth, Wind & Fire, American, founded 1969
• Type: shirts
• Medium: cotton muslin, cotton thread, rhinestones, and adhesive
• Dimensions: H x W (flat): 30 × 1 in. (76.2 × 2.5 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Clothing and dress
• Topic: Costume
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Soul (Music)
• Object number: 2015.147.3.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Costume Designer Bernard G. Jacobs
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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