Evening Dress
1912 (made)
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Evening dress of purple silk overlaid with purple silk chiffon and satin. With a pleated satin waistband, two dramatic purple silk tassels at the side of the hip, a bodice draped with chiffon, elbow length sleeves and an inner bodice bust and back trimmed with appliqué metallic purple and silver embroidery.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk, chiffon, satin, embroidered and appliqued metal thread, glass beads, sequins (gelatin?), metal hooks and eyes, silk net |
| Brief description | Evening dress of purple silk overlaid with silk chiffon and satin, worn by Heather Firbank, designed by Lucile, London, 1912 |
| Physical description | Evening dress of purple silk overlaid with purple silk chiffon and satin. With a pleated satin waistband, two dramatic purple silk tassels at the side of the hip, a bodice draped with chiffon, elbow length sleeves and an inner bodice bust and back trimmed with appliqué metallic purple and silver embroidery. |
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| Production type | Haute couture |
| Object history | Worn by Miss Heather Firbank. A small hand-written tag found in this dress with "Miss Firbank" pencilled on reappears in other labelled Lucile garments from the same collection, but not in garments labelled by other designers. |
| Production | Although it has no label, this dress can be securely identified as by Lucile because of a matching design in the Archive of Art and Design, AAD 2008/6/22. |
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| Accession number | T.35-1960 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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