ensemble, 3-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1989
name: label: designer
content: Arnold Scaasi
label: designer
content: Scaasi, Arnold
notes: label: Description
content: Dress: brown jacquard with purple and turquoise pansy print; boat neckline; center back opening; shoulder to waist flanges; long gathered sleeves with deep cuffs; hip yoke; two layered pleated flounces below yoke.
label: Description
content: Belt: brown satin.
label: Description
content: Coat: Purple wool; round neckline; long sleeves with mink cuffs; center front opening with four tortoise and brass buttons; shoulder flanges; flaps at upper right and left front; princess seams; peplum around hips; skirt with inverted pleat beneath peplum.
label: Description
content: Coat is Scaasi item #4404 and dress is #3305, both from Fall 1989 collection.
label: Description
content: The garments in this accession were acquired because they represent custom-made/designer clothing in the latter part of the twentieth century - a part of the garment industry that is fading away. They also demonstrate construction techniques which are not readily applied or taught today because they are labor intensive and costly.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
label: made in
content: United States: New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Arnold Scaasi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0086.005
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0086.005
label: accession number
content: 1997.0086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ensemble, 3-piece
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Ensemble
label: Object Type
content: Entire Body
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: center back dress: 36 1/8 in; 91.7575 cm