Evening gown
Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2021.11.9.3.CW.DR.C1940.XXDescription
A floor-length evening dress made of black textured silk crepe with V-neck and short sleeves with raised cap. Gown bodice is applied with bouquet of pink and red silk carnations and green sequined leaves, has shirring along the central front seam and by the side seams to the hips, a rear pointed cut-off and two unstitched darts on each side of the waist, zip closure on the left side. The bias-cut skirt is slightly flared and has a half-belt sewn into the right seam.Materials
Silk crepeSequins
Origin
circa 1940Exhibitions 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.
• 2021.12.03–2022.01.15. ‘Invitation to the Ball. From Alexandre Vassiliev foundation collection.’ Visaginas culture center, Visaginas, Lithuania.