1-piece dress with matching stole shawl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1958
name: label: maker
content: Chapman, Ceil
notes: label: Description
content: A strapless sheath-style evening dress with matching stole shawl, both in shiny cotton satin decorated with large yellow and blue flowers, black "twigs," and moss green leaves; background is a mid-range beige. DRESS: Diagonal draping in front of bodice which contains eight bones. Top of bodice front is straight and in the back angles down to a point in center back. Diagonal draping from right to left from top of bodice to midriff. At top front of bodice a pleat goes from narrow to wide from right to left and ends in the back. A 14" metal zipper inserted at center back with metal hook and eye at top. Six pleats on both sides in the back at the hip area. For ease of walking, a slit begins at the back about knee-length; edges of slit are rounded at the bottom and flow into a demi-train. Dress lined in shiny yellow fabric (rayon?) which extends to top of slit. One side of STOLE SHAWL is same material as dress; the other is a light blue cotton. Stole is a flat long rectangle. The stole ends are different langths (a 7" difference) creating an angle at the ends. Dress worn as part of donor's Maid of Cotton tour.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jean Carter Fisher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0229.02
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0229.02
label: accession number
content: 2011.0229
objectType: label: Object Name
content: 1-piece dress with matching stole shawl
label: Object Name
content: matching stole shawl
label: Object Name
content: 1-piece dress
label: Object Type
content: Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Shawl, Stole
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton satin with Everglaze crease resistance (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (zipper material)
label: Measurements
content: overall dress length: 64 in; 162.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: dress bodice width at widest point under arms: 30 in; 76.2 cm
label: Measurements
content: shawl: 20 3/8 in; x 51.7525 cm
label: Measurements
content: shawl upper length: 42 in; 106.68 cm
label: Measurements
content: shawl lower length: 49 1/4 in; 125.095 cm