dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1976
name: label: designer
content: James, Charles
notes: label: Description
content: Main dress; entire body; Charles James; long length; pale blue silk satin; asymmetric diagonal seaming in skirt section; skirt section tapers in at lower edge with a curving pleated draped panel at left front; bodice section has one pleated shoulder on right side; cut diagonally across left shoulder with a cap-like panel across the back and left shoulder; right side zipper opening extends from right armhole; waistline seam at front comes to a point at left front; asymmetric curved hemline; partial sheer lining at mid-front.
label: Description
content: According to documentation provided by Homer Layne, assistant to Charles James, the design was first created in 1929 for Isabel de Rivas, wife of Oliver Burr Jennings II. It was later remade in Geranium velvet for Lady Leucha Warner and duplicated in 1976 in pale blue double face silk satin for Jeanne Bultman (this dress). It was then made twice more in different materials for Elizabeth de Cuevas and Elsa Peretti.
label: Description
content: Photos of Mrs. Philip Hummer (likely Lynn Hummer) wearing a version of the dress are in the collection of the Chicago History Museum (ICHi-064762, ICHi-064761, ICHi-064760, ICHi-064759, ICHi-059295), along with design illustrations by Antonio Lopez (ICHi-062860, ICHi-062861, ICHi-062862). The Victoria & Albert Museum also has a 1974 execution of the dress (T.20-1980).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jeanne Bultman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0176.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0176
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 1-Piece
label: Other Terms
content: Dress, 1-Piece; Entire Body; Main Dress; Female