dress, 2-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1950-1959
name: label: maker
content: Ceil Chapman
notes: label: Description
content: Main dress; entire body; copper colored brocade, with woven pattern in black of Chinese figures, fences, gazebos, flowers and leaves; mandarin collar; DRESS- center front bodice opening to waist which fastens with three covered buttons and bound buttonholes in lower half, and small button and loop at neckline; metal zipper down left side, under placket; shoulder pads; set in 3/4 length sleeves, with slanted turned up cuffs, slit and flared along the outside and sewn together at the insides of the flare; fitted bodice; full skirt, with box pleat at center front and inverted pleat at center back; remainder knife pleats; all with two folds of fabric, one on top of the other; BELT- self fabric covered with shiny black backing; 1/2" (1 3/10 cm) wide; pointed end; oval covered buckle; hook and eye fastener; dress measures 47" (119 4/10 cm) down center back
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 Johanna B. Swart
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0093.002
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0093.002
label: accession number
content: 1993.0093
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 2-piece