dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1964-1970
name: label: maker
content: Ceil Chapman
notes: label: Description
content: Main dress; entire body; Chapman, Ceil; ecru silk chiffon, bias cut; deep round neckline in front, lower in back; front and back bodice extend into straps over shoulders; neckline and armholes have narrow self-binding; center back opening with metal zipper; boned lining of ecru rayon crepe, shaped with darted, sewn in below armhole level all around front and back bodice to underlayer of beige organza lining bodice; front gathered into empire shape at center by large brooch in gold-colored metal, set with stones of faux topaz and smoky topaz; chiffon is loosely caught up under lining fabric around front and side bottom, creating pouf hemline; additional doubled bias panel of fabric attached to back, under binding, which falls in gathers from straps to bottom, tacked down at each side of neckline and cascading into flowing, back hemline, attaching to front poufs at bottom of each side; godet at center back, under chiffon, center back measures 35" (89 cm)
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 Joy Brown
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0099.001
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0099.001
label: accession number
content: 1993.0099
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress