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1990s Woman's Exercise Suit

Description

Bright blue nylon jacket and pants with wide magenta, green and yellow front chevron trim on jacket.

a. Jacket:
Bright blue tightly woven nylon sports fabric at lower front, back and sections of long sleeves. Front V-Shaped panel in magenta with stripe insert of magenta, green yellow and black with multi-color stripe fabric used for fine piping at lower edge of V-panel. Panel extends to and becomes part of front cut-on upper sleeve design. Second multi-colored panel at under part of lower sleeves. Soft, full shoulder pads.
Hip length jacket with stand or fold down collar in magenta. Center front separating zipper. Long sleeves with triple elastic casings forming a 1.75" lower edge. Similar triple elastic casing, 2" wide, at lower edge of jacket. Slant welt pockets at left and right front hip. Lined in lightweight cotton jersey.

b. Pants
Bright blue full cut sport pants in tightly woven nylon sport fabric. One and one-half inch wide triple elastic casing at waist with cotton cord drawstring inside waistband. Left and right side seam pockets. One inch wide elastic casing at lower edge of legs; 7" zipper at lower edge side seams. Cotton jersey lining.

Source

HCT.2014.7.6ab

Fiber/Fabric Information

Nylon

Decade

1990-1999

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Collection

Citation

“1990s Woman's Exercise Suit,” Fashion2Fiber, accessed March 28, 2024, http://fashion2fiber.osu.edu/items/show/5104.

Item Relations

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