Object: Dress
Designer:
Augustabernard
(1886 - 1946)
Date: 1929
Medium: Printed silk crepe
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Muriel King
Object number: 71.268.3
DescriptionBlack silk crepe day dress printed with off white floral stripe, diagonal placement from bias cut; wide cowl neck F and B, draped into self tie at right shoulder; long straight sleeves; calf length shift, semi-fitted with pintucks along stripe lines at midriff; couture
Label Text:This dress by Augustabernard is draped on the bias and shaped with numerous, hand-sewn pintucks on the front and back torso. It was made for Muriel King, the American artist-turned-fashion designer.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Fashioning the Modern Woman: The Art of the Couturiere, 1919-1939
- Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions from the 1930s