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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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Child's dress

Costume dress for Lady in Orange from for colored girls... on Broadway

Nurse's uniform dress worn by Pauline Brown Payne

Black beaded dress designed by Zelda Wynn and worn by Ella Fitzgerald

Black dress worn by Oprah Winfrey as Sofia in The Color Purple

Purple dress and white belt worn by Dionne Warwick

Rose pink shirt dress and belt designed by Arthur McGee

Grey pinstriped dress and jacket designed by Arthur McGee

Teal waitress uniform worn by Halle Berry in the film Monster's Ball

Feedsack Dress

Michelle Obama’s Inaugural Gown, 2009

Dress

Dress, worn by Ruth Fernandez

Black beaded Flapper Dress

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

short sleeved knee length African geometric pattern dress

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

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

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

Woman's dress

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