Dress

Museum number:
2-63488a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210263488a@2dc
Alternate number:
3981 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Evening dress: (a) dress of silk net, sleeveless, low, round neck, straight bodice, with 2-tiered skirt. Bottom of each tier edged with iridescent sequins Materials: silk, sequins Techniques: net Colors: cream, pink Dimensions: (a) 46 1/2” center back; 21” waist width (b) 40” center back; 27 1/2” hem width (c) 9 1/2” x 100” long
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A.
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dresses (garments)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 47 inches and width 34 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Dress, accession number 2-63488a-c, described as Evening dress: (a) dress of silk net, sleeveless, low, round neck, straight bodice, with 2-tiered skirt. Bottom of each tier edged with iridescent sequins Materials: silk, sequins Techniques: net Colors: cream, pink Dimensions: (a) 46 1/2” center back; 21” waist width (b) 40” center back; 27 1/2” hem width (c) 9 1/2” x 100” longHearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Dress, accession number 2-63488a-c, described as Evening dress: (a) dress of silk net, sleeveless, low, round neck, straight bodice, with 2-tiered skirt. Bottom of each tier edged with iridescent sequins Materials: silk, sequins Techniques: net Colors: cream, pink Dimensions: (a) 46 1/2” center back; 21” waist width (b) 40” center back; 27 1/2” hem width (c) 9 1/2” x 100” longHearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Dress, accession number 2-63488a-c, described as Evening dress: (a) dress of silk net, sleeveless, low, round neck, straight bodice, with 2-tiered skirt. Bottom of each tier edged with iridescent sequins Materials: silk, sequins Techniques: net Colors: cream, pink Dimensions: (a) 46 1/2” center back; 21” waist width (b) 40” center back; 27 1/2” hem width (c) 9 1/2” x 100” long
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-63488a-c, described as Evening dress: (a) dress of silk net, sleeveless, low, round neck, straight bodice, with 2-tiered skirt. Bottom of each tier edged with iridescent sequins Materials: silk, sequins Techniques: net Colors: cream, pink Dimensions: (a) 46 1/2” center back; 21” waist width (b) 40” center back; 27 1/2” hem width (c) 9 1/2” x 100” longDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-63488a-c, described as Evening dress: (a) dress of silk net, sleeveless, low, round neck, straight bodice, with 2-tiered skirt. Bottom of each tier edged with iridescent sequins Materials: silk, sequins Techniques: net Colors: cream, pink Dimensions: (a) 46 1/2” center back; 21” waist width (b) 40” center back; 27 1/2” hem width (c) 9 1/2” x 100” long

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