Ensemble: dress and jacket
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1955
- Description
Ensemble of dark brown shantung silk. Dress (a) has fitted bodice and shoulder straps. V-shaped neckline in front; straight across in back. Thin waistband connects bodice and skirt. Skirt has small pleat at center back. Side zipper and hook-and-eye closure at proper left. Brown silk lining in bodice and skirt; additional black silk lining in skirt. Jacket (b) is fitted, collarless, and double-breasted, with cap sleeves. Four brown plastic buttons...
- Creator
Dior, Christian (designer)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Costume (mode of fashion)
Clothing
Main garments
Afternoon dress
Ensembles (costume)
Dresses (garments)
Jackets (garments)
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991
Dancers
Choreographers - Location
- Paris (France)
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Chest: (32.5 in)Waist: (24.25 in)Hip: (36 in)Length: (34.5 in)Length: (27.5 in)Circumference: (40 in)Length: (43 in)Chest: (34 in)Length: (13.5 in)Length: (4 in)Silk (fiber)MetalPlastic (organic material)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Dior, Christian (designer). Ensemble: dress and jacket. 1955. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/611. (Accessed April 16, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Dior, Christian (designer), (1955) Ensemble: dress and jacket. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/611
- MLA citation style
- Dior, Christian (designer). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/611>.