Dress
Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2020.4.23.16.CW.DR.C1940.US
Author:
Gloria SWANSON (American, Chicago 1899–1983 New York)
Description
Black crepe de chine cocktail dress with apache collar and mother-of-pearl buttons. The bodice is fastened up to the waist with nacre buttons, is decorated with them by the collar edge and along the front placket on both sides; has short loose set-in sleeves with turn-ups, three stitched bodice pleats to the waist on each side and a metal zip fastening on the left side. The waist cut-off skirt has three topstitched pleats and one pintuck on each side at front, and one box-pleat in the center front is bordered with two rows of the same buttons.
Material
Crepe silk
Origin
circa 1940 – 1945
United States
Related object
Dress of Gloria SWANSON
Exhibition History
• 2019.07.24–2020.03.03. ‘The Fashion during the War. 1938–1945. From Alexandre Vassiliev foundation collection.’ Museum ‘Liepaja occupation regimes’, Liepaja, Latvia.
