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Long, off white button down dress with plack pinstripes and red sash tied at waist
hostess dress | coordinating sash
Long, off white button down dress with plack pinstripes and red sash tied at waist
Dress
Designer (1905 - 1958)
c. 1957
Cotton
USA
Gift of Mrs. Janet Chatfield-Taylor
Object number81.30.5
Claire McCardell’s designs were more relaxed and sportier than French fashion, representing the white, middle-class, suburban lifestyle that drove “the American look,” and connoting postwar prosperity and consumer power.
DescriptionLong hostess dress in off white cotton shirting with black pinstripe; convertible collar, long cuffed dolman sleeves, CF pearl buttons; red cotton sash
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