Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection

Dress of chartreuse wool knit with reverse collar of pink and green check knit

Title
Dress of chartreuse wool knit with reverse collar of pink and green check knit
LC Subject
main garments
Donor
Swedlund, Harriett
Designer
Rappaport, Francesca
Description
Dress of chartreuse wool knit with reverse collar of pink and green check knit; long sleeves; attached, sewn-on belt of self-knit with two self-knit covered accent buttons at front; above-knee length; reverse pleat slit at center-front skirt with inset of pink and green check; center-back zip closure.
Designer Label
Francesca/ For/ Damon/ Made in Italy/ 8
Motif
Check
Work Type
dresses (garments)
Location
Italy
Date
1960/1969
Identifier
1980.010.012
Rights
In Copyright
License
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Material
Wool Knit
Technique
Reverse pleat slit
Set
Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
Primary Set
Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
Institution
Oregon State University
Note
Roy H. Bjorkman was a specialty women's shop. Damon Creations was founded in 1942 by Damon Rappaport. His wife, Francesca designed clothing for the company. The company closed in 1988. Francesca, also known as Francesca Di Damon, started her design career at 40 years old.