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Fashion Design

1921 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for woman's summer afternoon dress. Short-sleeved, five-eighths length white lawn dress with eyelet embroidery on the skirt, long, flared sheer black lace sleeves extending from beneath the shorter white sleeves. Black silk sash around the dropped waist with hip drapes of black lace. Worn with sheer black silk stockings, black shoes, and a wide-brimmed hat of black lace over black silk trimmed with all-white roses. The model holds a parasol open over her head of white ruched fabric, showing the interior of the parasol which is similarly ruched and lined, with rows of small black rosettes accenting and beautifying the ribs of the parasol.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Coloured chalks, ink and other media on toned paper
Brief description
Jules de Ban for Lucile Ltd., 1921. Design for a summer day dress, hat and parasol in white lawn and black lace.
Physical description
Design for woman's summer afternoon dress. Short-sleeved, five-eighths length white lawn dress with eyelet embroidery on the skirt, long, flared sheer black lace sleeves extending from beneath the shorter white sleeves. Black silk sash around the dropped waist with hip drapes of black lace. Worn with sheer black silk stockings, black shoes, and a wide-brimmed hat of black lace over black silk trimmed with all-white roses. The model holds a parasol open over her head of white ruched fabric, showing the interior of the parasol which is similarly ruched and lined, with rows of small black rosettes accenting and beautifying the ribs of the parasol.
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
'de Ban / 1921' (Signed and dated)
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.2921-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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