Dress Fabric
1949 (made)
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Dress fabric of screen-printed cotton in black and white check.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Screen-printed cotton |
| Brief description | Dress fabric of screen-printed cotton, designed by Lida Ascher for Ascher Ltd., Great Britain, 1949 |
| Physical description | Dress fabric of screen-printed cotton in black and white check. |
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| Credit line | Given by Zika Ascher |
| Object history | Part of 6 irregularly checked cotton fabrics in different colourways T.159 to E-1988. Designed by Lida Ascher, this high grade, fine cotton was used by Louella Ballerino (Affiliated Fashionists of California) in Winter 1949. It was suited to resort and leisure wear. Ascher remembered, at the time of the 1987 exhibition at the V&A, that customers loved these prints, but were often not aware that they were attracted by the irregularity of the freely-drawn motifs. |
| Bibliographic reference | Mendes, Valerie. Ascher. Fabric, Art, Fashion. London: V&A Publications, 1987, pp. 152-3.
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| Accession number | T.159-1988 |
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| Record created | April 20, 2007 |
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