dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1990
name: label: designer
content: Arnold Scaasi
label: designer
content: Scaasi, Arnold
notes: label: Description
content: Pale green chiffon; overall swirled and floral design of applied tiny rhinestones and pearls; low cut, straight across front and back; off the shoulder draped band around upper arm, with separate elastic band beneath; left side seam zipper closure; boned bodice; draped front bodice and skirt; underlined with a different shade of green; silk lining also has two layers of different greens.
label: Description
content: Scaasi item #6220 from Spring 1990 collection.
label: Description
content: The garments in this accession were acquired because they represent custom-made/designer clothing in the latter part of the twentieth century - a part of the garment industry that is fading away. They also demonstrate construction techniques which are not readily applied or taught today because they are labor intensive and costly. Additionally, this dress was chosen because it incorporated at the time newly developed textiles which applied machine techniques to what was once done by hand, such as embroidery and beading.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Arnold Scaasi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0086.003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 1-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: center back: 52 3/4 in; 133.985 cm