Dublin Core
Subject
Evening dress, 1893. Silk satin, crepe, and velvet, metal cord, rhinestone, and silk flower embroidery. Charles Frederick Worth, Paris. Gift of the Art Institute of Chicago. 1960.557a-b
Description
Dress, evening-style, of yellow silk satin. Bodice (a) has low, wide neckline embroidered with silver-colored cord and rhinestones, trimmed with silk fabric flowers at front. Pattern pieces create the illusion of the bodice wrapping right over left. Sleeves are gold-colored silk velvet and crepe. Self-fabric skirt (b) embroidered with silver-colored cord, gold-colored beads, sequins, and rhinestones. Lower edge of skirt bordered with twisted garland of two shades of yellow crepe and backed with gold-colored velvet. Long train in back.
Evening gown worn by Bertha Honoré Palmer to the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
The House of Worth created this two-piece evening dress for Mrs. Palmer to wear to various formal functions related to Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Creator
Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer)
House of Worth (Firm) (designer)
Source
Chicago History Museum
http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16029coll3/id/425/rec/6
Contributor
Angela Rothman
Rights
© Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
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