Dress of navy blue and cerulean blue silk velvet
- Title
- Dress of navy blue and cerulean blue silk velvet
- LC Subject
- main garments
- Donor
- Hawthorne, Betty
- Description
- Dress of navy blue and cerulean blue silk velvet; bodice has a draped neckline; three-quarter length sleeves with open slit at the mid-sleeve that wraps closed at the sleeve ends; bodice is navy blue with burnout wave lines design; skirt of cerulean blue has a pointed waistline; lower mid-length; straight silhouette; side snap and hook and eye closure; long belt loops at sides, but no belt; top has shell lining of indigo crepe attached at the waist seam; dress appears to have been pieced together from two different dresses.
- Motif
- Burnout velvet
- Work Type
- dresses (garments)
- Location
- United States
- Date
- 1930/1939
- Identifier
- 1991.006.021
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Silk Velvet Crepe
- Technique
- Dress appears to have been pieced together from two different dresses.
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Dress is from c.1935, but appears to have been repurposed from two different dresses from the 1920s.
