Turquoise Prom Dress
date: label: date made
content: 1955-1963
name: label: maker
content: Steinman, Will
notes: label: Description
content: This turquoise and aqua chiffon dress is labeled "Will Steinman Original," When a designer whose work was featured in <i>Vogue</i> during the mid-1950s. Another label reads "Lady Hamilton, Arlington, VA," which is the name of a bridal and fancy dress shop that closed its doors in 2009.
label: Description
content: Made in 1955, the dress was worn by Ruth E. Lander to formal events in the Washington, DC, area. This included a prom at J.E.B. Stuart Senior High School. Carol Porter, the dress' donor, wore the dress again in 1963 to a Sigma Kappa Sorority convention.
label: Description
content: The evening dress has a ruched, fitted bodice with aqua on the top half and turquoise below, as well as aqua spaghetti straps. The neckline in front is straight across, while the back curves lower and fastens with a turquoise metal zipper. Sewn into the center back are two long gathered bias panels, aqua on the left and turquoise on the right, both falling the length of the dress. The bodice has boning on the lower front and back. The full skirt has a deep slit at the center back, and the dress is lined in blue crepe with white tape loops at the top edges of the inside side seam.
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Carol E. Porter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0356.002
label: accession number
content: 2003.0356
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0356.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Dress
label: Object Type
content: Entire Body
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 in x 25 in; 101.6 cm x 63.5 cm