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Object: Evening dress
Designer:
Elizabeth Hawes
(American, 1903 - 1971)
Date: c. 1936
Medium: Silk brocade
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Dudley Schoales
Object number: 69.156.6
DescriptionEvening dress of striped silk brocade in ivory, purple, and lavender
Label Text:Elizabeth Hawes believed that American women should be free from the dictates of Paris fashion and to that end, she created couture clothing that was eminently wearable. She was also a modernist, as demonstrated by this bias-cut dress that uses construction to create an intricate stripe pattern. Hawes insightfully wrote, “My whole success as a dress designer depends on my feeling this very minute what my clients are going to want tomorrow and providing it for them.”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Arbiters of Style
- American Beauty
- Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions from the 1930s
- Elizabeth Hawes