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Artist/Maker	Jules De Ban (artist) Lucile (designed for)
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Design for a court presentation gown. A silver lamé brocade dress, straight cut with vertical rows of beading, overlaid with a swathed drape of lamé brocade caught at the hip with a bunch of blue roses and a long train bordered with beading. The wearer's right arm is are veiled with a long beaded fringe , her left arm has beads wound around it. She wears a bandeau headdress with a transparent veil attached and the three Prince of Wales ostrich feathers in front, and carries a large white ostrich feather fan.

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Categories	Drawings Fashion Designs Womenswear Clothing
Object type	Fashion design
Materials and techniques	Coloured chalks, ink and other media on toned paper Toned Paper Chalk Ink Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description	Jules de Ban for Lucile Ltd., 1923. Design for a court presentation dress
Physical description	Design for a court presentation gown. A silver lamé brocade dress, straight cut with vertical rows of beading, overlaid with a swathed drape of lamé brocade caught at the hip with a bunch of blue roses and a long train bordered with beading. The wearer's right arm is are veiled with a long beaded fringe , her left arm has beads wound around it. She wears a bandeau headdress with a transparent veil attached and the three Prince of Wales ostrich feathers in front, and carries a large white ostrich feather fan.
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 / 23' (Signed and dated) 'Copyright "Lucile" Ltd.' (Inscribed)
Credit line	Given by the artist
Subjects depicted	Woman Evening Dress Feathers Fan Headdress
Bibliographic reference	Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2939-1962

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O699496/fashion-design-jules-de-ban/

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