dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1958-1962
name: label: maker
content: Irene
notes: label: Description
content: Dress; robin's egg blue satin; round neckline, lower in F, w/ narrow V-shaped slit at CF, & self-fabric bow attached at bottom; two other bows attached to waistline; cap sleeves formed by an extension of bodice fabric, w/ gussets below; fitted bodice; CB opening extends below waistline seam into skirt & fastens w/ metal zipper, under placket, and hooks and eyes at CB neckline and waistline; constructed overskirt effect in F skirt originally cut very wide, with C seams F & B, side seams slanted outward & upward; sides were then folded over F and sewn together at CF, forming overskirt, w/ diagonal edges slatning down and out, and inward slant at side bottoms, below ends of folds; fullness at F waistline caught in with 3 pleats on each side; measures 42 1/4" (106.8) down CB.
label: Description
content: Label text: Irene / Julious Garfinckel & Co. / Washington
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: 1991.0698.014
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0698.014
label: accession number
content: 1991.0698
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress