Dress
Dublin Core
Title
Dress
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.
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)
House of Worth (Firm) (designer)
Source
Chicago History Museum
http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16029coll3/id/425/rec/6
http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16029coll3/id/425/rec/6
Date
1893
Contributor
Angela Rothman
Rights
© Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
Type
Dress
Files
Collection
Citation
Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer)
House of Worth (Firm) (designer), “Dress,” Paris of the Midwest: Chicago, 1837-1987, accessed April 25, 2024, https://parisofthemidwest.omeka.net/items/show/108.