dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1952-1958
name: label: maker
content: Christian Dior, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Main dress; entire body; Dior, Christian; blue floral print on off-white ground with touches of green; taffeta; strapless; full length bodice has horizontal, gathered pleats down center front seam; wide band around top of bodice is gathered into pleats at center front; which are held in/ place with a band of layers of fabric; bodice band ends are pleated and pointed at center back, which crossover and fasten beneath the opposite side of band and right and left back, over center back opening; skirt pleated; bodice lined with boned ecru net; lining fastens with hooks and eyes beneath narrow bodice placket; skirt placket opening hidden under pleat at center back fastens with snaps, with hooks and eyes at waistline, measures 49 1/2" (125 8/10 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 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: 1991.0698.018
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0698.018
label: accession number
content: 1991.0698
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress