dress, 1-piece
name: label: user
content: Booth, Virginia
label: maker
content: Clare Potter
label: designer
content: Clare Potter
label: sold at
content: Lord & Taylor
label: maker
content: Clare Potter
notes: label: Description
content: Green silk with faint black threads in weave; jewel neckline; center front full-length opening; fastens with 11 self fabric covered buttons; cap sleeves cut from bodice fabric; self-fabric binding around seleves; raised waistline with bias-cut band attached over seam; back bodice gathered into waistline seam; A-line below waist; side seam pockets; lined in white China silk
label: Description
content: Label text: Clare Potter
label: Description
content: Donor Virginia "Jimmie" Booth was a buyer for Lord & Taylor and was involved in Lord & Taylor's American Look program of the 1930s to 60s. American Look promoted American designers, and L&T president Dorothy Shaver chose designer Clare Potter early on for the program. Since the 1950s Booth was a close friend of Potter. Archival materials from Booth, including sketches from Potter, can be found in Archives Center collection NMAH.AC.0729.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used in
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: used in
content: United States: Connecticut
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Virignia W. Booth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0093.002
label: accession number
content: 2000.0093
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0093.002
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: 41 1/4 in; 104.775 cm