dress, 2-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1960-1965
name: label: maker
content: Fonssagrives, Lisa
label: designer
content: Fonssagrives, Lisa
label: user
content: Booth, Virginia
label: purchased at
content: Lord & Taylor
label: maker
content: Lisa Fonssagrives
notes: label: Description
content: Pink; medium weave; slubbed; OVERBLOUSE - sailor style shawl collar; detachable triangle of fabric snaps in behind V-shaped front opening; short sleeves cut in one piece with bodice fabric; straight sides; lined in silk SKIRT - has waitband; zipper closure at left side; straight sides; center back box pleat at bottom; lined in silk
label: Description
content: Label text: Lisa Fonssagrives
label: Description
content: Lisa Fonssagrives was the highest paid fashion model in fashion from the 1930s to 50s and was photographed by the best photographers in the field. At the end of the 1950s she began designing clothes. She was married to American photographer Irving Penn.
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
place: label: used in
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: used in
content: United States: Connecticut
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: 2000.0093.007
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0093.007
label: accession number
content: 2000.0093
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 2-piece
label: Object Name
content: dress, 2-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: overblouse center back: 23 in; 58.42 cm
label: Measurements
content: skirt center back: 27 1/4 in; 69.215 cm