Dress
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1893
- Description
Dress, evening-style, of yellow silk satin. Bodice (a) has low, wide neckline embroidered with silver-colored cord and rhinestones, trimmed with silk fabric flowers at front. Pattern pieces create the illusion of the bodice wrapping right over left. Sleeves are gold-colored silk velvet and crepe. Self-fabric skirt (b) embroidered with silver-colored cord, gold-colored beads, sequins, and rhinestones. Lower edge of skirt bordered with twisted garl...
- Creator
Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer)
House of Worth (Firm) (designer)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Costume (mode of fashion)
Clothing
Main garments
Evening dress (concept)
Dresses (garments)
Evening dresses (garments)
Palmer, Bertha Honoré, 1849-1918
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
World's fairs (exhibitions) - Location
- Paris (France)
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Chest: (38 in)Waist: (23.5 in)Waist: (25 in)Hip: (44 in)Length: (12.5 in)Length: (39 in)Length: (58 in)Other: (143 in)Other: (10 in)Silk (fiber)SatinCrepe (textile)Cord (fiber product)Beads (pierced objects)Sequins (spangles)Rhinestone
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer), House of Worth (Firm) (designer). Dress. 1893. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/425. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer), House of Worth (Firm) (designer), (1893) Dress. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/425
- MLA citation style
- Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer), House of Worth (Firm) (designer). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/425>.