dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1942-1945
name: label: maker
content: Donn Originals
notes: label: Description
content: Dress; black; horizontally ribbed weave; V-neckline in F, round in B; bodice fastens with 34 covered buttons and loops; skirt opening fastens w/ zipper; sleeves cut in one piece with the bodice; gusset on underside of sleeve; sleeves have pointed edge at outside, and shirring along edges of zipper fastening on underside; large shoulder pads sewn in at shoulders; F bodice has beaded vertical bands attached, at R & L, black-beaded, w/ gold bead border and leaf design; bodice is gathered at bustline; sides of bodice are shirred; CF of bodice dips to point at bottom; skirt is pleated into pointed bodice seam; curved waistline seam in B; two looped panels of fabric attached on each side of zipper; panels are lined in blue taffeta; measures 60 1/2" (153.7 cm) down CB.
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 J. B. Carpenter in memory of Mrs. Walter Willard Boyd
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0698.010
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0698.010
label: accession number
content: 1991.0698
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress