dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1968
name: label: maker
content: Mainbocher
label: maker
content: Mainbocher
notes: label: Description
content: Black jersey; round neck; fitted bodice; A-line skirt with pleats at either side of center front; black satin bands trim center front to hem, 2 at outer shoulders curving in to touch at center front middle, then curving out to sides above waistline; center back zipper opening extends into skirt; long set-in sleeves; set-in waitline; tacked on satin belt with hooks and eyes; neckline and cuffs have satin facing; lined in black china silk
label: Description
content: Label text: 750F68
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 a sample, #750, from his Fall 1968 collection.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
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: 1999.0274.001
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0274.001
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: 39 1/4 in; 99.695 cm
label: Measurements
content: waist: 25 3/4 in; x 65.405 cm