Object: Dress
Designer:
Molyneux
(1891 - 1974)
Date: c. 1948
Medium: Wool houndstooth
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Ephraim London, Mrs. Rowland Mindlin & Mrs. Walter Eytan In Memory of Mrs. M. Lincoln Schuster
Object number: 78.134.27
DescriptionBrown and cream wool check wool button front dress with four flapped pouch pockets at L and RS, stylized notch collar, padded shoulders, long sleeves and slim skirt; matching buckle belt
Label Text:The large pockets at the hips of this dress by Molyneux protrude even when empty. Rather than function as a replacement for a woman’s handbag, the pockets help to create the illusion of a narrower waist, corresponding to the fashionable postwar silhouette.
Exhibitions:
- Pockets to Purses: Fashion + Function
- 50 Years of Fashion, 1947 - 1997
- Fabulous! Fashions of the 1940s