Fashion Design
1923 (made)
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Design for a summer afternoon dress. Pale lilac silk, draped and wrapped skirt, the draped bodice suspended from a gold-embroidered band of fabric about the shoulders. Gold sash threaded through slits in the bodice at the hips. The overskirt of the dress in fine, transparent lace. Wide-brimmed cloché hat, the brim lined in lilac, trimmed with a bunch of purple rosebuds and a trailing scarf of lace that falls from the brim and drapes around the shoulders. Parasol covered with scalloped rows of fabric.
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Materials and techniques | Coloured chalks, ink and other media on toned paper |
Brief description | Jules de Ban for Lucile Ltd., 1923. Design for a summer afternoon dress of draped lilac silk and cobweb-fine lace. |
Physical description | Design for a summer afternoon dress. Pale lilac silk, draped and wrapped skirt, the draped bodice suspended from a gold-embroidered band of fabric about the shoulders. Gold sash threaded through slits in the bodice at the hips. The overskirt of the dress in fine, transparent lace. Wide-brimmed cloché hat, the brim lined in lilac, trimmed with a bunch of purple rosebuds and a trailing scarf of lace that falls from the brim and drapes around the shoulders. Parasol covered with scalloped rows of fabric. |
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Credit line | Given by the artist |
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Bibliographic reference | Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964. |
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Accession number | E.2938-1962 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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