Dress

Museum number:
2-63485
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020063485
Alternate number:
3376 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Dress. Materials: Silk honan, lace, velvet ribbon, taffeta, cotton boning, net Techniques: Dressmaking, tucking, lace applique. Colors: Natural honan, natural net, natural lace, aqua ribbon, and taffeta inserts. Dimensions: Circumference of hem: 106”; Length from front neck to hem: 4’ 4”. Remarks: 9-gore princess cut, high neck and yoke covered with dotted net. Long sleeves decorated with trouped 1/8” tucking. Bodice decorated with asymmetrically placed lace applique in front, symmetric applique in back. Skirt: each gore has one lace motif with silk cut away from underneath. Ribbon trims neck and wrists. Taffeta inserts in each floral motif. About a size 12.
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) and Lace (needlework)
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 106 inches and width 52 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-63485, described as Dress. Materials: Silk honan, lace, velvet ribbon, taffeta, cotton boning, net Techniques: Dressmaking, tucking, lace applique. Colors: Natural honan, natural net, natural lace, aqua ribbon, and taffeta inserts. Dimensions: Circumference of hem: 106”; Length from front neck to hem: 4’ 4”. Remarks: 9-gore princess cut, high neck and yoke covered with dotted net. Long sleeves decorated with trouped 1/8” tucking. Bodice decorated with asymmetrically placed lace applique in front, symmetric applique in back. Skirt: each gore has one lace motif with silk cut away from underneath. Ribbon trims neck and wrists. Taffeta inserts in each floral motif. About a size 12.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-63485, described as Dress. Materials: Silk honan, lace, velvet ribbon, taffeta, cotton boning, net Techniques: Dressmaking, tucking, lace applique. Colors: Natural honan, natural net, natural lace, aqua ribbon, and taffeta inserts. Dimensions: Circumference of hem: 106”; Length from front neck to hem: 4’ 4”. Remarks: 9-gore princess cut, high neck and yoke covered with dotted net. Long sleeves decorated with trouped 1/8” tucking. Bodice decorated with asymmetrically placed lace applique in front, symmetric applique in back. Skirt: each gore has one lace motif with silk cut away from underneath. Ribbon trims neck and wrists. Taffeta inserts in each floral motif. About a size 12.

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