dress, 1 piece
date: label: date made
content: 1990
notes: label: Description
content: Full length, cream colored satin cotillion dress. Slight V-neck front; straight high neckline in back. Front decorated w/appliqued lace in flower pattern with sequins and rhinestones in ctrs of some flowers; at bottom ctr of bodice are 23 synthetic pearl drops. CF dropped waist to slight point; same lace trim attached all around at waist. CB zipper opening covered w/large satin bow w/lace trim. Short puffy sleeves filled w/netting covered w/synthetic lining; each sleeve has attached bow w/a lace flower in ctr. Ties of bows decorated w/same lace trim. Full skirt of two layers of netting w/under skirt of satin. Atop netting overpiece of satin attached at waist goes all way around; in CF and CB ends in a point 28.5" from waist; overpiece decorated w/lace flowers and sequins. Beneath satin underskirt a crinoline of 4 layers of netting attached to second underskirt in a synthetic fabric. One detached bow. Unclear where the bow should be placed. Without visual confirmation.
label: Description
content: Dress worn by donor, then Patricia Loza, at the Twenty-Seventh Cordi-Marian Cotillion on April 28, 1990, in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Hilton and Towers. Donor designed her dress and had a seamstress, Cecilia Alaniz, sew it for her.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: worn
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: used
content: Latino
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Patricia Peña
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0238.01
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0238.01
label: accession number
content: 2018.0238
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress, 1 piece
label: Object Type
content: Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 50 in; 127 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, mounted: 54 in x 46 1/2 in x 32 in; 137.16 cm x 118.11 cm x 81.28 cm