ensemble, 3-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1994
name: label: maker
content: Sedrak Balian
notes: label: Description
content: Ensemble, 3-piece; gray silk shorts, corset, and coat lined with darker gray silk; Corset: strapless; cups cut out separately and seamed to long line body; center back closure with steel zipper, hook and eye; gathered onto elastic banding inserted through tubing at top and wasitline; white long line bra with wired cups with blakc nylon-covered padding, 7 bones; 9 pairs of hooks and eyes for adjustment in back; CB length: 5 1/4" (13.3 cm); CF length: 11" (28 cm); Shorts: 1 1/8" wide waistband has overlapping tab with hook and eye above center front zippered closure; CB length: 14 1/2" (36.8 cm); Coat: princess-line with bodice in one with skirt; square neckline; center front closure has silk cord lacing, eyes of which are finished in gunshot metal buttons, 17 gray pearl disk buttons below; short set-in puffed sleeves with crinoline, shoulder padding and 2 5/8" wide cuffs; darker gray silk lining; CB length: 55 1/2" (141 cm).
label: Description
content: Label text: Frederick's of Hollywood / S. Balian Designs
label: Description
content: Donor commissioned this ensemble from Lebanese-born designer Sedrak Balian while visiting Beverly Hills, California after her husband died.
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 Lilly F. Lawrence
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0092.001
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0092.001
label: accession number
content: 1995.0092
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ensemble, 3-piece