dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1968
name: label: maker
content: Mainbocher
label: maker
content: Mainbocher
notes: label: Description
content: Black satin; round neck; center back zipper opening extends into skirt; sleeveless; fitted bodice; set-in waistline band with tab ened that overlaps and fastens at center back; attached square rhinestone buckles at center fron;t skirt with unpressed inverted pleats and pleats on either side of center front and center back; two wide inserted bands of double-layer black tulle around bottom; wide satin band between and narrow satin band at bottom; lined in black silk with taffeta around hips
label: Description
content: Label text: 502S68
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 #502 from his spring 1968 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: 1999.0274.003
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0274.003
label: accession number
content: 1999.0274
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: 52 1/2 in; 133.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: waist: 24 3/4 in; x 62.865 cm