Dress
Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2020.4.10.4.CW.DR.C1940.FRDescription
Dark blue silk crepe cocktail dress, cut-off at the low waist, with raised shoulder pads and long sleeves gathered at cuffs, has V-neckline to the middle of the front with small lapels, is snap-fastened on the left side, dropped gathered skirt, the waist is formed by multiple rear pintucks. The dress is embroidered with pink microbeads in a yoke-shape by the shoulders, in apron-shape on the skirt and with scattering of single beads and beaded florets by the whole bodice.Materials
CrepeBeads
Origin
circa 1940 Paris, FranceExhibitions History
• 2013.11.12–2014.08.10. ‘From War to Peace. The Fashion of the 1940s and 1950s. From Alexandre Vassiliev foundation collection.’ Museum of Applied Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania. Catalogue.• 2019.07.24–2020.03.03. ‘The Fashion during the War. 1938–1945. From Alexandre Vassiliev foundation collection.’ Museum ‘Liepaja occupation regimes’, Liepaja, Latvia.
• 2023.06.06–2023.10.01. ‘Flowers and Fashion. End of the 18th century – first half of the 20th century.From the collection of Alexandre Vassiliev foundation.’ Daugyvenė museum-reserve of cultural history (Burbiškis Manor), Radviliškis district, Lithuania.