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Fashion Design

1920 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Woman in a black silk evening dress with a wrapped effect, the skirt extended into a long pointed train which terminates in a knot clasped with a jewelled band. Where the edges of the wrap-over fold, glimpses of a blue lining can be seen. The dress is fastened at the hip with a decorative brooch accented with long blue beaded fringing. The off-the-shoulder neckline has long blue beaded fringes falling over the arms and clasped around the forearm. The bodice of the dress is embroidered with a deep V of blue beading. The model wears black silk shoes which are accented with blue beads, a blue beaded bandeau headdress with hanging bead strands over the ears, and carries a fan of blue-dyed ostrich feathers.


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. Design for woman's evening dress, 1920. Black, with blue beading.
Physical description
Woman in a black silk evening dress with a wrapped effect, the skirt extended into a long pointed train which terminates in a knot clasped with a jewelled band. Where the edges of the wrap-over fold, glimpses of a blue lining can be seen. The dress is fastened at the hip with a decorative brooch accented with long blue beaded fringing. The off-the-shoulder neckline has long blue beaded fringes falling over the arms and clasped around the forearm. The bodice of the dress is embroidered with a deep V of blue beading. The model wears black silk shoes which are accented with blue beads, a blue beaded bandeau headdress with hanging bead strands over the ears, and carries a fan of blue-dyed ostrich feathers.
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 / 20' (Signed and dated)
  • 'Copyright' (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.2916-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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