dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1986-1987
name: label: maker
content: Bob Mackie
notes: label: Description
content: Dress; off-white crepe; strapless; CB opening with handswen nylon zipper and hook closure at top; front obidce has shaped, rolled top line with deep decollete V at CF; structured with boned separate white lining, attached around top, with white grosgrain band around bottom, ending in tabs that hook at CB; bodice fabric is loosely double pleated on the diagonal from CF V to pointed top edge; raised waistline slants up to a point in from just below V; skirt fabric pleated into folds which fall below CF point; back bodice slatns down into a V in back; gathers in skirt across top of back; separate skirt lining, attached at waist, of white fabric; rolled hem with bound top edge on inside turnup; tap loops attached inside top back, and crocheted thread loops inside top front for hanging; measures 49 1/4" (125.1 cm) down CB.
label: Description
content: Label text: Bob Mackie / 8 / Made in USA / Elizabeth Arden / The Salon
label: Description
content: Bob Mackie designed exclusively for TV and movies; donor says this was from the first collection made for Seventh Ave. to be sold in stores.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Lilly F. Lawrence
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0108.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress