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Fashion Design

1924 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for an evening dress in the robe de style manner, lilac chiffon and net, the full skirt trimmed with alternating rows of pink and lilac silk, the wrap-over bodice trimmed with deep burgundy roses at the hip and smaller rosebuds at the shoulders.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Coloured chalks, ink and other media on toned paper
Brief description
Jules de Ban for Lucile Ltd., 1924. Design for a pink and lilac robe de style evening dress
Physical description
Design for an evening dress in the robe de style manner, lilac chiffon and net, the full skirt trimmed with alternating rows of pink and lilac silk, the wrap-over bodice trimmed with deep burgundy roses at the hip and smaller rosebuds at the shoulders.
Dimensions
  • Average size of sheets in set height: 41.9cm
  • Average size of sheets in set width: 27.3cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'designed by de Ban / 24' (Signed and dated)
  • 'Copyright "Lucile" Ltd.' (Inscribed)
Credit line
Given by the artist
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.2940-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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