Pink Cotton Dropwaist Dress

VC1992023

Pink Cotton Dropwaist Dress

dropwaist dress of sheer peachy pink cotton3 rows of ecru lace trim at necklibeSome lace rolled into flower like trim at CF waistlineOne row at each sleeve hem, one row at each side off CF panelVertical gridded lace panel at CF and CBRibbon trim ??? with hanging ends a left shoulder and CF waistlineHuge hem - handsewn3 tucks at each front shoulder

1920-1929

Clothing and dress

37.5 inches (waist), 37.5 inches (center back length),

Physical Object

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37.5

37.5

37.5 inches (waist), 37.5 inches (center back length),

1920

1929

costume

clothing

Vassar Girls and Other Women

With 1992.18, a sheer rose colored day dress from the 1920's, the changes begun during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are closer to completion: the weight of the fabric has decreased to such an extent that the dress itself is completely sheer and is dependent on an underslip for any modesty: the legs, arms, and neck are all exposed. According to a theory of the art historian Anne Hollander, as presented in her book Seeing Through Clothes, the development first of still photography and then of the motion picture turned the viewer's focus to the body in motion and away from the body as a static form. The statuesque nineteenth century woman in a full length trained skirt was replaced by a woman with legs that were seen to move.

good

Light brown perspiration stains on each arm ??? underarm

size 12, 1974

C3

61920's pink batiste day dress1992.18With 1992.18, a sheer rose colored day dress from the 1920's, the changes begun during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are closer to completion: the weight of the fabric has decreased to such an extent that the dress itself is completely sheer and is dependent on an underslip for any modesty: the legs, arms, and neck are all exposed. According to a theory of the art historian Anne Hollander, as presented in her book Seeing Through Clothes, the development first of still photography and then of the motion picture turned the viewer's focus to the body in motion and away from the body as a static form. The statuesque nineteenth century woman in a full length trained skirt was replaced by a woman with legs that were seen to move.