dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1973-1974
name: label: maker
content: Rodrigues
notes: label: Description
content: Wool dress of double-weave with horizontal multicolored plaid bands across dark blue ground with teal, fucshia, and white vertical stripes; high band collar of multicolored plaid which fastens with 3 hooks above CB opening, extending into skirt placket, with hidden zipper; long sleeves, hemed at bottom; front bodice uses fabric on mirror bias, with stripes meeting in V at CF seam; plaid at lower bodice forms diamond with plaid in skirt; joined by waistline seam; plaid fabric continues from sides of diamond on bodice as separate band around back to form wide belt which fastens at CB w/4 hooks; A-line skirt very slightly gathered aross front; front skirt also done on a mirror bias w/mitered points up Ctr seam; back fabric used straight.
label: Description
content: Label text: Rodrigues
label: Description
content: Bought by donor on sale at Elizabeth Arden, Washington DC; donor Rita Adrosko, Curator Emeritus of Textiles, says she loved the color and weave of the fabric and the use of the fabric, which is a double-weave, always reminded her of a textile/sewing teacher's challenging exercise.
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 Rita J. Adrosko
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0323.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 1-piece
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall center back: 42 1/2 in; 107.95 cm