Black Dress with Belt and Peach Sleeves

Brief Item Record

Title: Black Dress with Belt and Peach Sleeves

Description: Black silk crepe, rosy cream silk crepe-back satin, metal clips with mirror and clear rhinestones, cream cotton netting, black metal snaps, black cotton hand-crocheted belt loops, black metal hock and eye; Bias gown; boat neck, tie at center back with triangular keyhole, two triangular clips at collar bones; satin belled short sleeves, graduated puffed ruching details, left balloon hem, right sleeve sewn at hem, sleeves lined with netting; curved down waist seam, five bust darts, two waist darts at the princess lines; snaps at left side seam, one hook and bar at side seam; belt loop at each side seam; six triangular insets at bottom of skirt; steep curved waist seam at back, two back darts at the princess line, two waist darts at inside back. Clip band-belt; square clasps at center; six rows of top stitching along length.

Full Item Record

Dublin Core

Identifier

VC2001020

Title

Black Dress with Belt and Peach Sleeves

Description

Black silk crepe, rosy cream silk crepe-back satin, metal clips with mirror and clear rhinestones, cream cotton netting, black metal snaps, black cotton hand-crocheted belt loops, black metal hock and eye; Bias gown; boat neck, tie at center back with triangular keyhole, two triangular clips at collar bones; satin belled short sleeves, graduated puffed ruching details, left balloon hem, right sleeve sewn at hem, sleeves lined with netting; curved down waist seam, five bust darts, two waist darts at the princess lines; snaps at left side seam, one hook and bar at side seam; belt loop at each side seam; six triangular insets at bottom of skirt; steep curved waist seam at back, two back darts at the princess line, two waist darts at inside back. Clip band-belt; square clasps at center; six rows of top stitching along length.

Subject

Clothing and dress

Extent

32 inches (chest), 28 inches (waist), 35 inches (hips), 49.5 inches (center front length), 50.5 inches (center back length), other measurements: cf waist - 9

belt - 26

Medium

Type

Physical Object

Temporal Coverage

Rights

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Rights Holder

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Costume Item Type Metadata

Cataloguer with Date

Leksi, Chloe, Anne, 3/5/2010

Color Main

Chest

32

Waist

28

Hips

35

Center Front Length

49.5

Center Back Length

50.5

Measurements Other

cf waist - 9

belt - 26

All Measurements

32 inches (chest), 28 inches (waist), 35 inches (hips), 49.5 inches (center front length), 50.5 inches (center back length), other measurements: cf waist - 9

belt - 26

Gender

Classification

costume
clothing

Category

Function

Condition Description

differences in sleeves, folding/ wrinkling, shattering silk at top shoulder puffs

Storage Location

O12

Work Type

Citation

“Black Dress with Belt and Peach Sleeves,” Vassar College Costume Collection, accessed July 6, 2024, https://vccc.vassarspaces.net/items/show/861.