Fashion Design
1921 (made)
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Design for woman's summer afternoon dress. Short-sleeved, five-eighths length white lawn dress with eyelet embroidery on the skirt, long, flared sheer black lace sleeves extending from beneath the shorter white sleeves. Black silk sash around the dropped waist with hip drapes of black lace. Worn with sheer black silk stockings, black shoes, and a wide-brimmed hat of black lace over black silk trimmed with all-white roses. The model holds a parasol open over her head of white ruched fabric, showing the interior of the parasol which is similarly ruched and lined, with rows of small black rosettes accenting and beautifying the ribs of the parasol.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Coloured chalks, ink and other media on toned paper |
Brief description | Jules de Ban for Lucile Ltd., 1921. Design for a summer day dress, hat and parasol in white lawn and black lace. |
Physical description | Design for woman's summer afternoon dress. Short-sleeved, five-eighths length white lawn dress with eyelet embroidery on the skirt, long, flared sheer black lace sleeves extending from beneath the shorter white sleeves. Black silk sash around the dropped waist with hip drapes of black lace. Worn with sheer black silk stockings, black shoes, and a wide-brimmed hat of black lace over black silk trimmed with all-white roses. The model holds a parasol open over her head of white ruched fabric, showing the interior of the parasol which is similarly ruched and lined, with rows of small black rosettes accenting and beautifying the ribs of the parasol. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'de Ban / 1921' (Signed and dated) |
Credit line | Given by the artist |
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Bibliographic reference | Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964. |
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Accession number | E.2921-1962 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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