Evening dress
Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2021.11.4.1.CW.DR.C1940.XXDescription
Purple with blue sparkles textured crepe evening gown with short batwing sleeves and long navy fringe from hip line. The bodice is draped with puffs on top, with a slit to the middle of the chest and hook-and-eye fastening under the neck, at the waist has a short vertical shirring. The dress has a straight floor-length skirt with side slits, trimmed with a navy-blue nylon cordonnet fringe, that is sewn with a toe up at front and by the straight line at back (there is a bag with a spare piece of fringe).Materials
Silk crepeNylon cords
Origin
circa 1940Related object
BroochExhibitions History
• 2015.07.15 - 2015.10.25. "Invitation to the centenary ball 1915-2015", Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga,Latvia• 2015.11.10 - 2016.11.18. "Invitation to the centenary ball 1915-2015" Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, Lithuania
• 2019.03.03–2019.05.30. ‘Invitation to the Ball. From Alexandre Vassiliev foundation collection.’ National History Museum, Minsk, Belarus.