dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1968
name: label: used by
content: Booth, Virginia
label: maker
content: Mars Manufacturing Corporation
label: purchased at
content: Lord & Taylor
label: maker
content: Mars Manufacturing Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Silver foil A-;line shaped dress; waffle texture; scoop neck, front and back; sleeveless;neckline and cut-out armhole edges folded down and stitched; white card tab attached with string, to shoulder, with name of auction house, location and lot number, printed in blue
label: Description
content: Label text: Size 8-10 Tiny / "Wastebasket Boutique" / by Mars of Ashville, N.C. / Do Not Wash
label: Description
content: Auction tag: Sotheby's Lot / 102 / Sotheby's / New York
label: Description
content: Mars Manufacturing Corp., a leading producer of paper dresses in the late 1960s, used Kaycel, a new wonder fabric, which was both fire and water resistant. Lord & Taylor set up paper boutiques in their stores during this craze. This dress was placed on sale at Sotheby's, New York, by donor for the Pulp Fashion Auction sale, May 3, 1999, with an estimated price of $600-800. The dress was never sold.
label: Description
content: Donor Virginia "Jimmie" Booth was a buyer for Lord & Taylor and was involved in Lord & Taylor's American Look program of the 1930s to 60s. American Look was developed to promote American designers. Archival materials from Booth can be found in Archives Center collection NMAH.AC.0729.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Virginia W. Booth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0093.014
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0093.014
label: accession number
content: 2000.0093
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: cb measures: 50 in; 127 cm
label: Measurements
content: center back measures: 50 in; 127 cm