Dress of olive wool knit with wide, high neckline

Title
Dress of olive wool knit with wide, high neckline
LC Subject
main garments
Donor
Diedesch, Marie
Designer
Parnis, Mollie
Description
Dress of olive wool knit with wide, high neckline; 3/4 length sleeves; button back bodice with two concealed snaps at neckline; 2" waistband with skirt and bodice gathered into it; skirt has a straight silhouette and is lower mid-length and has a center-back zip closure below buttons; slim, attached tie belt ties in front; long bust darts; fully lined in green silk.
Designer Label
Mollie Parnis/ New York
Work Type
dresses (garments)
Location
United States
Date
1960/1969
Identifier
1900.001.007
Rights
In Copyright
License
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Material
Wool Knit Silk
Technique
Paris darts
Set
Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
Primary Set
Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
Institution
Oregon State University
Note
Mollie Parnis was an American designer born in New York in 1905. She began her fashion designing career in 1939. (Fairchild's Fashion Dictionary) This dress might be late 1950s.