The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress is a dress made of more than 70 flags of nations where same-sex relations are
illegal
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+ victims of persecution. The dress has a diameter of 52 feet and has been displayed in San Francisco,
Cape Town,
and Ottawa,
among other cities.
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Lola Rodríguez have modeled the dress.
List of flags
The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress in its current form consists of 68 national flags, 4 Amsterdam city flags, and 9 rainbow flags which represents countries whose flag has been formerly represented in this dress but have since adopted LGBTQIA+ legislation.
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Rainbow flag
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See also
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List of individual dresses
This is a list of individual dresses which are famous or otherwise notable.
Dresses worn by celebrities
* American Express Gold card dress of Lizzy Gardiner
* Black Christian Siriano gown of Billy Porter
* Black dress of Rita Hayworth
* Black G ...
References
Individual dresses
LGBT symbols
Multicolor dresses
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