Black Silk Evening Bodice

VC1992130

Black Silk Evening Bodice

Black short sleeved evening bodice of silk satin with black net; label reads Mary Blount / Ogdensburg, NY; polished cotton lining; metal hooks and eyes; metal boning; black silk satin ribbon waistband; black taffeta bias tape on inside bottom edge; black short sleeved evening bodice10 piece bodice (CB piece w/2 parts); short draped poof sleeves w/ several layers of satin + rustwaistline pointed @ CF + CBstraight seams - machine sewn; rest by hand; loop of black silk twill tape in F of arms eye(for hanging?)

1891

Clothing and dress

26 inches (waist), 13.5 inches (center back length),

Physical Object

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Arden Kirkland 4/18/1993

26

13.5

26 inches (waist), 13.5 inches (center back length),

Mary Blount / Ogdensburg, NY

Wilcox (324 (1890); Coleman, 52 (1890), 76 (1893)

1891

1891

costume

clothing

Vassar Girls and Other Women

This evening bodice and skirt are both displayed inside-out to indicate their inner construction. Their general silhouette, whether inside-out or right-side-out, represents the important transitional point between the curves and elaboration of the nineteenth century and the straight lines and simplicity of the twentieth century. The fullness of the earlier periods is present in the pouf sleeves of the bodice and the stiffened texture of the skirt; yet the strong, flowing line that gains precedence in the twentieth century is also present in the fitted shape, pointed front, and lack of extensive trimming of the bodice, and in the fitted waist and dramatic flare (rather than gathering) of the skirt. The strength of the solid field of color of either piece foreshadows the strength of the element of color in the 1920's.

very good

eyes missing @ CB closure

1/19/2018 - Bodice was frozen for 48 hours and vacuumed. (Condition Report: Alexandra Figler)

M3

16white satin evening skirt, c. 1893(inside-out to show construction)1992.82b17black short sleeved silk evening bodice, c.1891(inside-out to show construction)1992.130label: 'Marv Blount / Ogdensburg, NY'This evening bodice and skirt are both displayed inside-out to indicate their inner construction. Their general silhouette, whether inside-out or right-side-out, represents the important transitional point between the curves and elaboration of the nineteenth century and the straight lines and simplicity of the twentieth century. The fullness of the earlier periods is present in the pouf sleeves of the bodice and the stiffened texture of the skirt; yet the strong, flowing line that gains precedence in the twentieth century is also present in the fitted shape, pointed front, and lack of extensive trimming of the bodice, and in the fitted waist and dramatic flare (rather than gathering) of the skirt. The strength of the solid field of color of either piece foreshadows the strength of the element of color in the 1920's.