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Suit and Shirt of Texas Governor John Connally (1963)

Create custom mounts for exhibit commemorating 50th anniversary of JFK assassination

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Dress forms before alteration
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Creating shoulder extensions
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Attaching shoulder extensions
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Creating Reemay arm support
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Attaching stuffed arm support
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Figure with shoulder & arm supports
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Stomach padding added
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Stomach padding, back view
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Attaching leg supports
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Completed suit figure
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Cuff stays were designed from archival materials to replace cuff links, which were not included
in the accession.
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French cuffs required cuff stays to maintain their fold and to logically display bullet holes. Substitute cuff links were judged to create authenticity issues.
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Clothes on completed figures
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Figures with custom display
skirts in exhibit vitrines

 

 

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