Evening gown. Silk, gold beads, cut steel, jet, sequins; metal wrapped yarns. Techniques: Net and lace with beads, jet, sequin trim including tassels, over two satin underskirts; metal wrapped yarns in lace in bodice. Black and cream. 58 inches long, with train, 7 inch sleeves. “Allan et Cie, New Bond St.”
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
London, England
Verbatim coll. place:
ENGLAND: London
Culture or time period:
English
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dresses (garments) and Lace (needlework)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)