dress, 2-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1968-1971
name: label: maker
content: Mainbocher
label: maker
content: Mainbocher
notes: label: Description
content: Black satin and jersey dress; satin band collar fastens with hooks and eyes at center back; center back opening slit to below waist; sleeveless; narrow shoulders of satin; satin joined to jersey with diagonal seam extending from left shoulder down to below waist at right, around back over hips to end at left side seam; fitted bodice; A-line jersey skirt; bodice liined with black silk; ribbon peplum belt
label: Description
content: Label text: 315F69 / 703F70
label: Description
content: Donor's mother, Josephine Guenzer, was one of Mainbocher's assistants at his salon in New York, during the 1960s and until the early 1970s when it closed in '71. This was a sample from one of his collections.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: made in
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Geraldine Oberling
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0274.004
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0274.004
label: accession number
content: 1999.0274
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 2-Piece
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Entire Body
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waist: 25 1/2 in; x 64.77 cm
label: Measurements
content: belt: 25 1/4 in; x 64.135 cm
label: Measurements
content: peplum: 11 1/4 in; 28.575 cm