Dress
- Image
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- Created Date
- circa 1985
- Description
Dress, evening-style, of striped silk taffeta in shades of orange and pink. Embellished with hand-painted blue green and red zig-zags and dots. Caftan silhouette. Finely-pleated orange taffeta standing collar; V-shaped neckline. Large armscyes; balloon-like sleeves taper to cuffed wrists. Side panels of self-fabric billow from underarm to side seams. Bottom hem is zig-zagged, each point embellished with a single blue green bead. Mid-calf length.
- Creator
Rhodes, Zandra, 1940- (designer)
Marshall Field & Company (distributor)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Costume (mode of fashion)
Clothing
Main garments
Evening dress (concept)
Dresses (garments)
Evening dresses (garments) - Location
- England
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Silk (fiber)TaffetaBeads (pierced objects)Beading (process)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Rhodes, Zandra, 1940- (designer), Marshall Field & Company (distributor). Dress. circa 1985. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/1048. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Rhodes, Zandra, 1940- (designer), Marshall Field & Company (distributor), (circa 1985) Dress. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/1048
- MLA citation style
- Rhodes, Zandra, 1940- (designer), Marshall Field & Company (distributor). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/1048>.