Evening Dress
1925 (made)
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This sleeveless, below-the-knee evening dress is made of embroidered and beaded silk, showing motifs of Chinese dragons. It was designed by Lucien Lelong and shown in the Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in 1925.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk chiffon (main dress)
Gold band at the top of the dress is silk-satin, it has a yellow silk weft and a metal warp. Metal warp is gold coloured metal wrapped around a yellow silk core.
Blue band - blue silk warp and weft and supplementary metal weft. Metal weft is gold coloured metal wrapped around a blue silk core. |
| Brief description | Evening dress, silk chiffon with beading, motifs of Chinese dragons (woven), designed by Lucien Lelong and displayed at the Paris exhibition of 1925 |
| Physical description | Sleeveless, below-the-knee evening dress made of beaded golden and navy silk. Square and straight shape, slightly wider below the waist. Deep V neckline at front, round neckline at back, trimmed with diamantés. Upper part of bodice is made of 2 triangles of transparent silk chiffon edged with diamantés, over a wide band of golden silk satin. Lower part of bodice is made of navy silk woven with Chinese dragon motifs, and 2 vertical bands of geometrical motifs. Skirt is made of silk chiffon scalloped at the hem, completely covered with beading, and has circumvoluted patterns made of diamantés. |
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| Production type | Haute couture |
| Marks and inscriptions | "Chimere" |
| Credit line | Given by Mrs William Gordon |
| Object history | This dress was previously catalogued as by Jeanne Paquin, however, there is no mention of Paquin in the original museum documentation so it is unclear where this attribution came from. It is now believed this dress was designed by Lucien Lelong. Photographs of the dress at the Paris exhibition in 1925 show it displayed alongside other dresses identified as Lelong. A photograph of this design was attributed to Lelong in L'Art et la Mode, no. 9, 1925. |
| Summary | This sleeveless, below-the-knee evening dress is made of embroidered and beaded silk, showing motifs of Chinese dragons. It was designed by Lucien Lelong and shown in the Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in 1925. |
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| Accession number | T.50-1948 |
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| Record created | January 10, 2003 |
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