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Evening Dress

ca. 1953 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Draped evening dress in deep pink and crimson silk chiffon, elaborately draped and arranged, and with a separate train or stole in the same fabric.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Evening Dress
  • Train (Costume Component)
Materials and techniques
Silk chiffon
Brief description
Draped evening dress and train in silk chiffon, designed by Jean Dessès, France, ca. 1953
Physical description
Draped evening dress in deep pink and crimson silk chiffon, elaborately draped and arranged, and with a separate train or stole in the same fabric.
Production typeHaute couture
Credit line
Given by Mrs D.M. Haynes and Mrs M. Clark
Object history
Opal Holt was born in Canada in 1887 but lived in the US until the end of the Second World War. She travelled extensively between the wars and was in the first plane to land in Bali. She married Herbert Holt, a Canadian who lived a large part of his life in England, as her third husband in 1946. They came to England and Europe every summer and Opal Holt began buying clothes in Paris for her life in England, and for the Bahamas in Winter, over a period of about thirty years. She died in 1980.

Given by Mrs D.M Haynes and Mrs. Clark (nee Holt; Opal Holt's step-daughters).
Collection
Accession number
T.106&A-1982

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Record createdMay 22, 2009
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