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Brown and cream check button front dress with four pockets, padded shoulders, and buckle belt
dress, matching belt
Brown and cream check button front dress with four pockets, padded shoulders, and buckle belt
Dress
Designer (1891 - 1974)
c. 1948
Wool houndstooth
France
Gift of Mrs. Ephraim London, Mrs. Rowland Mindlin & Mrs. Walter Eytan In Memory of Mrs. M. Lincoln Schuster
Object number78.134.27
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.
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
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