Evening dress
Designer
Ann Lowe
(American, 1898 - 1981)
1960s
Silk
Gift of Linda Dixon
Object number2023.19.1
Ann Lowe was a sought-after designer for American high society from the 1920s through the 1960s. Growing up in Jim Crow Alabama, she trained from a young age under her grandmother Georgia Thompkins and mother Janie Cole. Thompkins was a talented dressmaker who gained her freedom from enslavement in 1860 and later established a successful salon with her daughter in Montgomery. Lowe passed this legacy down to the women in her family in the form of this dress, made for her step-granddaughter Joan Willis.
DescriptionOff white sleeveless silk floral brocade debutant dress, princess seams, interior boned bra, attached slip, back bow, zip backExhibitions