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Masquerade ball gown

Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2020.5.20.7.CW.DR.C1905.FR
Author:
House of Worth (French, 1858-1956, 1999-)
Description
Haute couture ball dress for a disguised ball, pointed whalebone bodice with puffy cap sleeves in gold lamé and adjoining skirt in turquoise blue fashioned silk velvet, woven silver thread with lily decoration, fold on the waist and open in front of a gold lamé petticoat.
Materials
Velvet
Lamé brocade
Silver thread
Silk
Origin
circa 1905 France
Related person
House of Worth (French, 1858-1956, 1999-) (creator)
Exhibition History
• 2022.12.13–2023.01.15. ‘Welcome to the Belle Epoque. 1890–1914. From the collection of Alexandre Vassiliev foundation.’ Visaginas culture center, Visaginas, Lithuania.