Not currently on display at the V&A

Sample

1965 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Embroidered sample from a bodice for an evening dress in white satin embroidered with a repeating design of quatrefoils with decorative infills in silver bugle beads, small costume pearls, tiny gold glass beads, teardrop pearls and diamond-shaped pink glass stones.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Satin embroidered with beads, costume pearls, and glass stones
Brief description
Sample from a bodice for an evening dress in embroidered satin, designed by Eveline Gordon for Worth, London, 1965
Physical description
Embroidered sample from a bodice for an evening dress in white satin embroidered with a repeating design of quatrefoils with decorative infills in silver bugle beads, small costume pearls, tiny gold glass beads, teardrop pearls and diamond-shaped pink glass stones.
Credit line
Given by Miss E. Gordon
Object history
Registered File number 1986/63.
Miss Gordon noted that only half the design (below the row of 3 pink stones) was used for the neckline of the bodice.
Collection
Accession number
T.251B-1986

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Record createdApril 30, 2003
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