2011.25.1

Images (7)

From left to right: Green dress, c.1830 (P88.28.1); sleeve puffs, c.1829 (2023.28.1); red dress, c.1895 (2019.83.1); red robe, c.1935 (2011.25.1); suit by Schiaparelli, 1935 (87.70.2); dress by Carolina Herrera, fall 1981 (88.105.13); dress by Madame Grès, c.1980 (82.234.3); dress by LaQuan Smith, spring 2022 (2023.34.1)

A 1930s dressing gown (left, 2011.25.1) and a 1935 suit by Schiaparelli (87.70.2) in the Opening Statements section of the exhibition.

Object: Robe

Date: c. 1935

Medium: Silk velvet and silk satin

Country: USA

Credit Line: Gift of Pamela Starkey

Object number: 2011.25.1

DescriptionSet; dark red side wrap floor length robe with train in silk velvet, exaggerated pointed square shoulder line and full sleeves with rows of curving semi-circle pin tucks at shoulder to elbow and at lower sleeve to wrist; coordinating red burgundy ribbon sash in silk satin

Exhibitions:

Statement Sleeves
Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions from the 1930s