Evening dress
Designer
Ann Lowe
(American, 1898 - 1981)
c. 1955
Silk velvet
Gift of Eleanor Cates
Object number77.60.1
This dress illustrates Lowe’s mastery of fine dressmaking, incorporating an intricate understructure to shape the hourglass silhouette. Ebony magazine noted in 1966, “She is famous for her expensive hand-sewn formal gowns, each so superbly constructed and fitted with built-in bras that the wearer just steps into one and is ready to go.”
DescriptionLong strapless evening dress in dark purple velvet; stylized sweetheart neck with collar tabs; boned bodice, multiple full length gores forming front of fitted bodice and full skirt; flared back skirtExhibitions