Dress
Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2019.1.30.19.CW.DR.C1929.FR
Description
Violet silk chiffon dress with velvet application. Probably haute couture, Paris (lable missing). Evening dress in flapper style made of double-layered violet chiffon, sleeveless, with a wide round neckline, asymmetrical wave-shaped reliefs at front and back with asymmetrically directed groups of pintucks between them in the hip area, the underdress is reinforced with a wide strip of non-woven fabric by hem, on the skirt of the overdress there are fly-off gores overlapping each other, the rear gore from the left seam forms a train and is decorated with a violet velour plant appliqué, the gore on the right side without appliqué.
Materials
Silk chiffon
Velvet
Origin
circa 1929
Paris, France
Exhibition History
2019.04.02–2019.05.02. ‘Elegancy of 1930s. Moldovian and Romanian style icons.From Alexandre Vassiliev foundation collection.’ Chisinau Historical Museum, Chisinau, Moldova