AFTERNOON OR EVENING DRESS
Currently in storage
About this object
Gray, ankle-length dinner dress with fitted waist, V-neck, and full skirt. The garment is decorated at the shoulders with a wide zig-zag pattern and leaf motif embroidered in metal thread with gray beads in a metal setting. Free-hanging, round forms covered with small gray beads are applied in a row to the outside edge of the zig-zag pattern. The bodice and sleeve are cut in one piece with a full, inset, underarm gusset. The sleeves are long and tight fitting at the wrist. Several waist darts are used to fit the bodice. The skirt consists of eight gores and is decorated with the same embroidered and beaded motif used on the bodice. The garment has a wide grosgrain waist tape and closes at center back with a metal zipper.
- Object name:
- AFTERNOON OR EVENING DRESS
- Made from:
- Silk taffeta
- Made in:
- New York, USA
- Date made:
- 1947-1950
- Size:
- H. 17 1/2 in. (shoulder to waist front); H. 17 1/2 in. (shoulder to waist back); Dia. 29 1/2 in. (waist circumference); H. 32 in. (waist to hem front); H. 33 in. (waist to hem back); Dia. 120 in. (hem circumference)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 48.100
- Signature marks:
- LABEL: Salon de Couture / BONWIT / FIFTH AVENUE / TELLER [in side seam]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973