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Fashion Design

1920 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A woman in a pale brown and cream day dress, the effect of a high-necked cream silk blouse with leg o'mutton sleeves worn under a pale brown sleeveless dress which falls to mid-calf and fastens at one side of the dropped waist with a decorative buckle or brooch. Wearing a darker brown helmet style hat with long cream silk scarf ties edged with fringe that are tied under the chin and fly out behind, the front of the hat trimmed with two white bird's wings, and wearing a matching brown velvet muff on one hand.


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 women's day dress, 1920. Brown, with muff and helmet hat tied with long fringed scarf.
Physical description
A woman in a pale brown and cream day dress, the effect of a high-necked cream silk blouse with leg o'mutton sleeves worn under a pale brown sleeveless dress which falls to mid-calf and fastens at one side of the dropped waist with a decorative buckle or brooch. Wearing a darker brown helmet style hat with long cream silk scarf ties edged with fringe that are tied under the chin and fly out behind, the front of the hat trimmed with two white bird's wings, and wearing a matching brown velvet muff on one hand.
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.2915-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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