Dress
mid 1950s (made)
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Grey slubbed silk day dress, sleeveless, pleated skirt, triangular gussets under arms. Designed to be worn with a fringed bolero jacket in the same silk.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | slubbed silk |
| Brief description | Eisa (Balenciaga). Grey silk day dress designed to be worn with a fringed bolero jacket, Spain, mid-1950s. |
| Physical description | Grey slubbed silk day dress, sleeveless, pleated skirt, triangular gussets under arms. Designed to be worn with a fringed bolero jacket in the same silk. |
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| Object history | Worn by American client Anne Bullitt, Bullitt lived in Madrid with the second of her four husbands. This simple dress is an example of the more everyday production of the Eisa house, not all of whose clients were confident trendsetters. The quality of dressmaking is good, with hand-finished hems and seams, but it is not to the extremely high standard of the Parisian house. If the cost of his Paris salon was out of reach, there were other ways to buy a Balenciaga design. Some were sold less expensively under Balenciaga’s label Eisa in Spain, where labour costs were lower and cheaper fabrics might be used. |
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| Accession number | T.152:1-2015 |
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| Record created | November 17, 2015 |
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