Cocktail dress

Clothes for Women

Inventory number
2025.3.6.2.CW.DR.C1929.US
Description
A knee-length longsleeved cocktail dress made of umber-colored wool crepe with tone-on-tone cotton lining. Has a round neckline, a button fastening on the left shoulder, sleeves with bell cuffs, a sewn-in belt made of the same crepe, the side seams are slightly gathered with shirring at the waist. The waist cut-off skirt has an abundant floral embroidery with transparent and gold micro beads and bugles in the center front and by the hip line, all the embroidery and the neckline are bordered with two rows of golden bugles.
Materials
Wool crepe
Beads
Bugles
Origin
circa 1929 probably USA