Ensemble: dress, jacket, and belt
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1937
- Description
Dress, evening-style, of embroidered light pink silk crepe. Dress (a), sleeveless, with low, square neck in front and a V-shape in back. Dress is cut straight to the knee and then flares slightly to the floor. Belt (b), self-fabric, with snap closure, worn over dress at natural waist. Jacket (c), self-fabric, closes right over left. Jacket is embroidered and heavily beaded on proper right side; design features female head whose gold-colored beade...
- Creator
Schiaparelli, Elsa, 1890-1973 (designer)
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 (designer)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Costume (mode of fashion)
Clothing
Main garments
Evening dress (concept)
Ensembles (costume)
Jackets (garments)
Belts (costume accessories)
Dresses (garments)
Goodspeed, Charles B., Mrs., 1893-1980 - Location
- Paris (France)
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Silk (fiber)Crepe (textile)Glass (material)Beads (pierced objects)Beading (process)MetalEmbroidering
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Schiaparelli, Elsa, 1890-1973 (designer), Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 (designer). Ensemble: dress, jacket, and belt. 1937. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/442. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Schiaparelli, Elsa, 1890-1973 (designer), Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 (designer), (1937) Ensemble: dress, jacket, and belt. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/442
- MLA citation style
- Schiaparelli, Elsa, 1890-1973 (designer), Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 (designer). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/442>.