Dress of Metallic Floral Brocade and Black Net

VC1992102

Dress of Metallic Floral Brocade and Black Net

Dress of light green silk georgette with black net overlay trimmed with panels and overskirt of flowered brocade with metallic threads.

1915-1925

Evening Dresses; 1910's; female

chest = 39, slightly dropped waist = 35.5, length at center back = 45.25

silk, cotton, metal

Physical Object

1910's

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VC1992102

Arden Kirkland 4/25/1993, 11/11/11, 2015-10-26

39

35.5

45.25

slightly dropped waist = 35.5length at center back = 45.25

Coates, 140 (1997)Moore, 172 (1919)Arnold, 1860-1940, 66 (c.1917-18)Bradfield, 351 (1919), 345-8 (1914)Waugh, The Cut of Women's Clothes, 289 (1921)

female

Evening Dresses

Dress

Vassar Girls and Other Women

This dress is another example of the transition between the forms of the nineteenth and the twentieth century; it represents a moment right before the full achievement of fashion's focus on the body in motion. Here we begin to see some of the strong straight lines that are fully achieved in the Twenties, but the shirring of the net still retains some of the curves and bulk of earlier periods, and the figure is still somewhat static.

excellent

Steamed on 2015-10-21 by Asia Howard and Esther Kim to prepare for display at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Displayed with a white silk slip.

size 14, 1977

M5

Vassar College Costume Collection, Drama Department, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604

18evening dress of metallic flowered brocade and black net, 1915-19251992.102This dress is another example of the transition between the forms of the nineteenth and the twentieth century; it represents a moment right before the full achievement of fashion's focus on the body in motion. Here we begin to see some of the strong straight lines that are fully achieved in the Twenties, but the shirring of the net still retains some of the curves and bulk of earlier periods, and the figure is still somewhat static.