dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1970
name: label: maker
content: Mainbocher
label: maker
content: Mainbocher
notes: label: Description
content: Black georgette over black satin-backed crepe; fitted bodice with deep V-neckline front and back; sleevelss; front and back neckline trimmed with 1 7/8" wide satin ribbon bands, which cross-cross below front V; center back zipper opening; skirt has top layer of very full sunburst pleated georgette; satin-backed crepe A-line skirt beneath has deep slit up center front
label: Description
content: Label text: 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 sample #703 from the Fall 1970 collection.
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: 1999.0274.005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 1-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: center back: 43 in; 109.22 cm
label: Measurements
content: waist: 23 1/4 in; x 59.055 cm