drawing
date: label: Date made
content: 1970-1985
name: label: maker
content: Halston
notes: label: Description
content: Fashion sketch of striding woman in plum plaid dress; watercolor over pencil on cream laid charcoal paper; woman depicted in profile with facial features and gray hair; dress has long full sleeves, suggestion of cowl neckline, and flared, bias skirt, with sash; plaid in shades of plum with blue; brushstrokes suggest sidewalk and shadow; glued onto cream laid sheet with black print letterhead, giving designer's company name, address, and telephone number; typed description of dress below mounted sketch; second heavier sheet of white paper has three holes on left; letterhead across top; labeled lines below for date and information about fabric sample; fabric sample stapled in large box below label lines; thin jacquard weave wool, with variegated light and dark plum and gray blue woven herringbone pattern. By Halston.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: William W. Graham
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0019.022
label: accession number
content: 2004.0019
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0019.022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: mounting sheet width: 8 1/2 in; 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: swatch mounting sheet height: 11 in; 27.94 cm
label: Measurements
content: swatch mounting sheet width: 8 1/2 in; 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: drawing height: 6 1/2 in; 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: drawing width: 4 3/8 in; 11.1125 cm
label: Measurements
content: mounting sheet height: 11 in; 27.94 cm
label: Measurements
content: overa: 5 7/8 in; 14.9225 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in; 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: fabric swatch length: 5 7/8 in; 14.9225 cm
label: Measurements
content: fabric swatch width: 2 1/4 in; 5.715 cm