Black Silk Evening Bodice
Brief Item Record
Title: Black Silk Evening Bodice
Creator: Mary Blount
Date: 1891
Description: 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?)
Full Item Record
Dublin Core
Identifier
VC1992130
Title
Black Silk Evening Bodice
Description
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?)
Creator
Date
1891
Subject
Clothing and dress
Extent
26 inches (waist), 13.5 inches (center back length),
Type
Physical Object
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Rights
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Rights Holder
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Costume Item Type Metadata
Cataloguer with Date
Arden Kirkland 4/18/1993
Color Main
Closure
Costume Components
Waist
26
Center Back Length
13.5
All Measurements
26 inches (waist), 13.5 inches (center back length),
Label
Mary Blount / Ogdensburg, NY
References
Wilcox (324 (1890); Coleman, 52 (1890), 76 (1893)
Date Earliest
1891
Date Latest
1891
Culture
Gender
Classification
costume
clothing
Category
Exhibitions
Vassar Girls and Other Women
Public Information
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.
Condition Term
very good
Condition Description
eyes missing @ CB closure
Treatment
1/19/2018 - Bodice was frozen for 48 hours and vacuumed. (Condition Report: Alexandra Figler)
Storage Location
M3
Holding Institution
Exhibition Notes
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.
Work Type
Citation
Mary Blount, “Black Silk Evening Bodice,” Vassar College Costume Collection, accessed May 30, 2023, https://vccc.vassarspaces.net/items/show/802.