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Pyjama dress
Pucci, Emilio, born 1914 - died 1992 - Enlarge image
Pyjama dress
- Place of origin:
Italy (made)
- Date:
ca. 1968 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Pucci, Emilio, born 1914 - died 1992 (designer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Printed silk jersey
- Credit Line:
Given anonymously
- Museum number:
T.337-1997
- Gallery location:
Fashion, room 40, case CA14, shelf FIG2
This trouser-dress designed by Emilio Pucci in 1968 is typical of Italian fashion. Cut in a luxurious Italian-produced silk jersey, it displays the bright Mediterranean colours which have been Pucci’s hallmark since the beginning of his career in the mid-1950s. The dress has a sleeveless bodice with a low-cut neckline. The bodice is cut under the bust and continues into a wide trouser-skirt.
Fashion at the end of the 1960s was characterised by the abandonment of short and rigid A-line mini-dresses in favour of long and svelte lines, and by the increasing presence of trousers in women’s wardrobes. Long dresses and skirts were no longer restricted to evening wear but were increasingly part of daywear.
