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Dinner dress
American
1935–37
Object Place: USA
Medium/Technique
Taffeta
Dimensions
143 cm (56 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Susan Morse Hilles
Accession Number53.2344
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionDinner dress of light green changeable taffeta (two warps, one green and one white--one weft, pale blue); long sleeved princess style with high neck; turned-back collar; fastened down center front to waistline with enameled glass buttons; yoke over shoulders; upper sleeves full with tight self-buttoned lower sleeves; gores of skirt flaring widely to give full hemline; zipper in left underarm seam.