dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1992
name: label: designer
content: Arnold Scaasi
label: designer
content: Scaasi, Arnold
notes: label: Description
content: Black matte jersey; round neckline; long tapered sleeves; shoulder pads; center back opening with seven covered buttons and loops; back has deep heart-shaped cutout buttons on bodice which extends to lower center back waistline; zipper opening below cutout; horizontal ruching around middle from midriff to hips; lined pleated drape at center back; lined straight skirt.
label: Description
content: Scaasi item #1041 from Fall 1992 collection.
label: Description
content: The garments in this accession were acquired because they represent custom-made/designer clothing in the latter part of the twentieth century - a part of the garment industry that is fading away. They also demonstrate construction techniques which are not readily applied or taught today because they are labor intensive and costly. Additionally, this particular dress represented what the woman executive would wear to the office and for dinner with a client.
label: Description
content: This garment was probably a sample, to be shown on the runway or salon on a model, as the insides are not finished.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
label: made in
content: United States: New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Arnold Scaasi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0086.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 1-piece
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Dress
label: Object Type
content: Entire Body
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: center back: 40 1/2 in; 102.87 cm