Dress
- Image
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- Created Date
- circa 1955
- Description
Dress, evening-style, of black cotton velvet. V-neck; elbow sleeves; Empire waist; self-fabric bow at center front waist; inverted V-shaped pleat at waist; floor-length skirt; center back closure.
- Creator
Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Costume (mode of fashion)
Clothing
Main garments
Evening dress (concept)
Dresses (garments)
Evening dresses (garments)
Luce, Henry R., Mrs., 1903-1987 - Location
- Paris (France)
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Cotton (fiber)Velvet (fabric weave)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer). Dress. circa 1955. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/559. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer), (circa 1955) Dress. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/559
- MLA citation style
- Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/559>.