Yellow dress shirt worn by Charley Pride: Museum Object and Cultural History
Yellow dress shirt worn by Charley Pride: Date: 1972. Created by: Machin Shirt Maker Los Angeles, American. Worn by: Charley Pride, American, 1934 - 2020.
The object in the museum catalogue
This yellow nylon dress shirt was worn by Charley Pride and tailored for him by Machin. The shirt has a standard collar and full-length sleeves. It closes at the center front with seven (7) round pearlized white plastic buttons. The cuff of each sleeve closes with one (1) of the same buttons. The shirt is not lined. A white fabric label with blue machine-embroidered text is sewn at the interior center back neck that reads "TAILORED ESPECIALLY FOR / CHARLEY PRIDE / Machin / SHIRTMAKER / LOS ANGELES / JULY 1972".
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1972
- Created by: Machin Shirt Maker Los Angeles, American
- Worn by: Charley Pride, American, 1934 - 2020
- Type: dress shirts
- Medium: nylon with plastic buttons
- Dimensions: H x W: 33 3/8 x 61 in. (84.8 x 154.9 cm)
- Place made: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Clothing and dress
- Topic: Country (Music)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2012.125.55
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charley Pride
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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