Not currently on display at the V&A

Sample

1965 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sample from a bodice for an evening dress of ivory satin embroidered with part of a repeating design of quatrefoils with decorative infills in silver bugle beads, small gold glass beads and blue glass stones on a ground of dense embroidered diamond lattice of small gold glass beads about central costume pearls.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Embroidered satin with beads, glass stones and costume pearls
Brief description
Sample from a bodice for an evening dress of embroidered satin, designed by Eveline Gordon for Worth, London, 1965.
Physical description
Sample from a bodice for an evening dress of ivory satin embroidered with part of a repeating design of quatrefoils with decorative infills in silver bugle beads, small gold glass beads and blue glass stones on a ground of dense embroidered diamond lattice of small gold glass beads about central costume pearls.
Credit line
Given by Miss E. Gordon
Object history
Registered File number 1986/63..
Miss Gordon noted that only half of the design was used on the bodice.
Collection
Accession number
T.251C-1986

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Record createdApril 30, 2003
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