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Sheer black floor-length evening dress with v-neck and pleating across midriff
evening dress
Sheer black floor-length evening dress with v-neck and pleating across midriff
Evening dress
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Designer (French)
1938
Black matte silk jersey
France
Gift of Mr. Rodman A. Heeren
Object number70.57.66
This short-sleeved evening dress with a sharply cut, V-neckline is another of Madame Grès's variations on the Grecian gown. It not only displays the range of her early "Grecian" experiments, it also presages a design element that the couturier would refine and continue to use well into the 1950s: horizontally ruched fabric that lay between the bust and the waist. Collectively, the silhouette and lack of understructure accentuate the garment's modernity, so that it looks fresh and contemporary even though it is nearly seventy years old.
DescriptionFloor length evening dress in sheer black silk jersey with short tucked sleeves, plunging V-neck, vertical cartridge pleating at front midriff, and flared skirt
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