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Sample

1935 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This sample was annotated that it was intended for a 'court dress, satin to low hipline, full chiffon skirt'.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Embroidered satin and chiffon, machine-stitched, embroidered over floss silk, rhinestone, beads and pearls
Brief description
Embroidered sample for a court dress, made by Eveline Gordon at the workshop of Worth, London, 1935.
Physical description
Embroidered sample for a court dress. Ivory satin and chiffon embroidered with a corn spray. Fabrics are machine-stitched together along a wavy central line and the waved motif is embroidered over in ivory floss silk. With rhinestone studs, silver bugle beads and oat-shaped pearls along the centre of the cereal.
Credit line
Given by Eveline Gordon
Object history
Registered File number 1986/63.

An attached note from Miss Gordon: 'court dress, satin to low hipline, full chiffon skirt'.
Subject depicted
Summary
This sample was annotated that it was intended for a 'court dress, satin to low hipline, full chiffon skirt'.
Collection
Accession number
T.246-1986

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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