Dress - Pearl Gray Faille Trimmed with Lavender Velvet
Collection: Queens Library Index of American Design Artwork
Date: 1935 - 1943; 1935
Material: Watercolor and graphite on paper Dimension:
6.3 x 8.9 inches; 400 ppi
Creator: Bessie Forman
Identifier: aql:27923 iad-000007 iad-000007.tif
Description: Dress of 1870 - Pearl gray faille trimmed with lavender velvet. The very short waisted Basque has two pleats in back, giving a coat-tail effect. There are two boned darts on each side of the front of a boned underarm seam. The sleeves are set in the armhole with cording and the entire Basque is lined with white taffeta. The overskirt is knee length in front and has three wide pleats at side which fall upward and extend toward the back, forming the Polonaise effect. The characteristics train if finished with a scant ruffle and a pleated dust ruffle of white muslin edged with French Val lace. Watercolor painted by Bessie Forman. [Description taken from accompanying exhibition card.]
Creator :
Bessie Forman
Date :
1935 - 1943; 1935
Summary/Description :
Dress of 1870 - Pearl gray faille trimmed with lavender velvet. The very short waisted Basque has two pleats in back, giving a coat-tail effect. There are two boned darts on each side of the front of a boned underarm seam. The sleeves are set in the armhole with cording and the entire Basque is lined with white taffeta. The overskirt is knee length in front and has three wide pleats at side which fall upward and extend toward the back, forming the Polonaise effect. The characteristics train if finished with a scant ruffle and a pleated dust ruffle of white muslin edged with French Val lace. Watercolor painted by Bessie Forman. [Description taken from accompanying exhibition card.]
Subject :
Fashion drawing; Clothing and dress; Women's clothing; Index of American Design; United States. Works Progress Administration
Rights :
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration Federal Art Project. On extended loan to Queens Library. Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Type :
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Format :
Watercolor and graphite on paper; 6.3 x 8.9 inches; 400 ppi
Identifier :
aql:27923 iad-000007 iad-000007.tif
Subject:
Fashion drawing; Clothing and dress; Women's clothing; Index of American Design; United States. Works Progress Administration
Fashion drawing; Clothing and dress; Women's clothing; Index of American Design; United States. Works Progress Administration
Rights Notice
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration Federal Art Project. On extended loan to Queens Library. Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration Federal Art Project. On extended loan to Queens Library. Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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