dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1993
name: label: maker
content: Christopher Hunt
notes: label: Description
content: Dress; white silk with white lace overlay has floral design in silver metallic thread with iridescent sequins and pearls; V neckline, front back; elasticized shoulder straps; bouffant overskirt, curving from R and LF around back; large shoulder bows all of off-white polka-dot jacquard silk; boned bodice, front and sides; slightly dropped waist with curved waistline seam in front; narrow skirt with slight train in back; CB zipper, hook at top; double bows at each shoulder, front and back, all stiffened with net lining; matte off-white bugle beaded; separate leaves and pearls drop trim at bow centers; overskirt lined in net and curves down into train over dress; measures 55 1/2" (141 cm) down CB.
label: Description
content: Label text: Christopher Hunte / New York
label: Description
content: Made for donor specifically for dinner party given for 85 people, in her home, for the 20th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. It was also a fundraiser for the National Abortion Rights Action League.
label: Description
content: Designer was a professor at the Pratt Institute who started his career by designing pageant dresses, the first of which was for a contestant at the Miss Jamaica USA pageant. He also made custom dresses for clients such as donor Lilly Fallah Lawrence and NAACP President Hazel Dukes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: 1993.0108.003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress