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Dress

mid 1950s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

White slubbed silk day dress with full skirt and blue floral print


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Dress
  • Belt
Materials and techniques
printed slubbed silk
Brief description
Eisa (Balenciaga). White slubbed silk day dress printed with blue flowers, Spain, mid-1950s.
Physical description
White slubbed silk day dress with full skirt and blue floral print
Dimensions
  • Shoulder to hem length: 116cm
  • Waist circumference: 52cm
  • Shoulders width: 47cm
Gallery label
Day dress Printed silk Cristóbal Balenciaga (Eisa label), Madrid, early 1950s V&A: T.154-2015(12/05/2017)
Object history
Worn by American client Anne Bullitt, Bullitt lived in Madrid with the second of her four husbands. This simple dress is an example of the more everyday production of the Eisa house, not all of whose clients were confident trendsetters. The quality of dressmaking is good, with hand-finished hems and seams, but it is not to the extremely high standard of the Parisian house.

If the cost of his Paris salon was out of reach, there were other ways to buy a Balenciaga design. Some were sold less expensively under Balenciaga’s label Eisa in Spain, where labour costs were lower and cheaper fabrics might be used.
Association
Collection
Accession number
T.154:1&2-2015

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Record createdNovember 17, 2015
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