dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1939-1940
name: label: maker
content: Carnegie, Hattie
notes: label: Description
content: Black crepe dress with low, wide, scoop neck, R&B, with narrow black lace band, slightly gathered with elastic around top edge, inset into neckline; narrow F yoke below neck forms loose cap sleeves and forms separate band over the B neck, attached at the top, forming shawl collar in B; F midriff fabric sewn to cap sleeve at R & LF in seam that extends out sligtly; midriff dips down CF; CF opening in midriff extends into skirt and fastens with rhinestone flower buttons which button into slits in placket; additional snaps at waist; horizontal tucks at each side of F create fullness at sides and open at F edge into wedges cut into F hip area, creating pouches at R & LF; set-in waistline band; skirt cotton is notched at CF.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Carol R. Bare
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0720.011
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0720.011
label: accession number
content: 1991.0720
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress