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Put on your red dress mama.
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Title:

Put on your red dress mama

Creator/Contributor:

Tuckett, Nan., creator

Abstract:

Photographs depict several drag queens dressing for and posing at a red dress party in San Francisco. Photographs and captions place a humorous emphasis on women's clothing and feminine behavior.

Date:

1988 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Female impersonators -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Cross-dressers -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Cross-dressing -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Gay people -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Parties -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Dresses -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Women's clothing -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Femininity -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Acteurs travestis -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Travestis -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Travestisme -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Personnes homosexuelles -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Robes (Vêtements de femme) -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Vêtements de femme -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Féminité -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Cross-dressers
Cross-dressing
Dresses
Female impersonators
Femininity
Gays
Parties
Women's clothing
California -- San Francisco

Note:

Inscribed on inside front cover: The Red Dress Party, San Francisco, 1988. Nan Tuckett.
Title from print on front cover (signed by Charles). Front cover also decorated with red lipstick marks and ms phrase in ink: "it really wasn't my shade."
All photographs captioned in ms. on album leaves.

Type:

graphic
Photographs
Photograph albums.

Physical Description:

photoprint
1 album (39 photographic prints) : color ; 31 x 23 cm

Language:

English

Origin:

California