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Type of collection:Clothes
Registration number:
133IND
Class:Social Outfit
Denomination:Accessory
Title:Zuzu mourning necklace [angel with flowers – ensemble with dress, shawl, headscarf and belt]
Author:Angel, Zuzu
Background/Collection:Zuzu Angel
Production date:Década de 1970
Local production:Legacy
Clothes history:
The necklace was used by Zuzu Angel in the presentation of the International Dateline Collection III - Holiday and Resort parade in 1971, at the residence of Brazil's consul in New York, Lauro Soutello Alves. According to Hildegard Angel (2016), Zuzu wore the costume of mourning many times, at social and official occasions, with all his props, shawl, necklace, and belt of crosses, making his image the public allegory of his pain.
Dimensions:
Width: 0,06
Height: 0,43
Technique:Being researched
Material:Metal
Clothes description:
Silver necklace with flowers and a porcelain angel in: white, pink, blue, green and orange. The angel is proned at the center of the piece, which is holding a bouquet of flowers, over a 0, 14 cm metal support with leaves details. Around the flowers, there are flowers and leaves, as well as on the three pendants, which are 0, 05 cm each, right below the angel. The metal chain is 0, 15 cm long and has small blue balls, The closing is buoy style.
Associated events:International Dateline Collection III - Holiday and Resort, 1971
Complementary clothes:
Zuzu Mourning dress [ensemble with shawl, headscarf, belt and necklace]
Zuzu Mourning headscarf [ensemble with dress, shawl, belt and necklace]
Zuzu Mourning shawl [ensemble with dress, headscarf, belt and necklace]
Zuzu Mourning belt [ensemble with dress, shawl, headscarf and necklace]
Description of complementary clothes:
Zuzu mourning dress: long dress, in a trapeze cut, in tiled black silk and long sleeves. Sleeves with a frown on the shoulders, straight V neck cleavage, slightly rounded, whit two cutouts starting at the armholes. Hems and wrists with a hand made seam, with the hem having a gimp thread. Closing at the back with brackets and a 0, 53 cm zipper. Inside the piece, at the height of the shoulders, there is a metal snap button, with a part stuck to the piece and another stuck to a strap sewn inside the piece.
Zuzu Mourning headscarf: Headscarf made in black silk muslin, with a hand made seam.
Zuzu Mourning shawl: shawl of black tiled silk with fringes. The fringes were hand sewn, and the silk has a machine sewn hem with a straight seam. One of the extremities has a patch made in the same fabric.
Zuzu mourning belt: Belt made with a metal chain, hoops, 2 buoy latches and crucifixes in two sizes: 0, 05 cm and 0, 07 cm. The word “Fátima” can be seen on the back of the smaller crucifix. The crucifixes alternate sizes, being placed side by side, all along the chain. At the center of the belt, the crucifixes are placed in a gradual manner, getting bigger at the center.