Black Dress with Belt and Peach Sleeves

VC2001020

Black Dress with Belt and Peach Sleeves

Black silk crepe, rosy cream silk crepe-back satin, metal clips with mirror and clear rhinestones, cream cotton netting, black metal snaps, black cotton hand-crocheted belt loops, black metal hock and eye; Bias gown; boat neck, tie at center back with triangular keyhole, two triangular clips at collar bones; satin belled short sleeves, graduated puffed ruching details, left balloon hem, right sleeve sewn at hem, sleeves lined with netting; curved down waist seam, five bust darts, two waist darts at the princess lines; snaps at left side seam, one hook and bar at side seam; belt loop at each side seam; six triangular insets at bottom of skirt; steep curved waist seam at back, two back darts at the princess line, two waist darts at inside back.Clip band-belt; square clasps at center; six rows of top stitching along length.

Clothing and dress

32 inches (chest), 28 inches (waist), 35 inches (hips), 49.5 inches (center front length), 50.5 inches (center back length), other measurements: cf waist - 9

belt - 26

cotton

glass

metal

Physical Object

1930s

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VC2001020

Leksi, Chloe, Anne, 3/5/2010

black

32

28

35

49.5

50.5

cf waist - 9

belt - 26

32 inches (chest), 28 inches (waist), 35 inches (hips), 49.5 inches (center front length), 50.5 inches (center back length), other measurements: cf waist - 9

belt - 26

womenswear

costume

clothing

Evening Dresses

evening dress

differences in sleeves, folding/ wrinkling, shattering silk at top shoulder puffs

O12

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

dress

belt