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Best Dressed: Fashion Trends and Famous Wearers

While the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is home to the renowned First Ladies' gown collection, dresses can be found throughout the Smithsonian's museums. These dresses reflect fashion trends, pop culture history, and their wearers. 

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Costume for Glinda the Good Witch in The Wiz on Broadway

light blue dress with sequenced beads at top

Dress worn by Jamie Farr as Maxwell Klinger on television series, M*A*S*H

dress with matching belted raincoat

Two piece dress, including skirt and halter top worn on the TV show "The Wonder Years"

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

blue sleeveless knee length dress with blue metallic thread

Gown worn by Ginger Rogers in Follow the Fleet

Caroline Harrison's 1889 Inaugural Gown

black knee length dress with gold & light blue beading

Margarita Lora's Dress

Costume gown, petticoat, and jacket for Addaperle in The Wiz on Broadway

Hillary Clinton's 1993 inaugural ball gown

dress worn for "hippie" wedding on the TV show "The Wonder Years."

Dress worn by Olga Guillot

Dress

Queen's Ball Attire- Gown

China Poblana Dress

Miss Starlett costume, worn by Carol Burnett on "The Carol Burnett Show"

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

from Wilderness Embodied Couture collection

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

South Bend Blue Sox Baseball Dress, worn by Betsy Jochum

Dress worn by Mary Wilson

Dress

1-piece dress

Evening Dress

Dress

Woman's floral print dress

Woman's Calico Dress

Elphaba "Wicked Witch" dress made for original Broadway production of Wicked

Sculpture

Jingle Dress

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