




2019.21
Dress
Date: 1920s
Brown silk crepe de chine 1920s dress with a drop waist, accentuated by a thick horizontally gathered waistline and a black glass bead decoration with strands of freely moving beaded fringe. At the neckline, there is a beaded design in copper and black glass cylindrical beads. Sleeves are lined with a light ocher crepe de chine that is visibly seen through sits running up the exterior side of the arm. Two panels drop from the waistband and frame the boxy skirt, and are lined with the same ocher crepe de chine fabric. Dress snaps up from the left proper waist to the armpit, then follows the line of the bust up to the front of the shoulder and neckline. Snaps range from every 1.5 to 2.5 inches.
Material: silk crepe de chine, glass beads, metal snaps
Label: None
Measurements:
Bust: 32 inches
Waist: 31 inches
Shoulder to shoulder: 12.75 inches
Neck to bottom front: 37.75 inches
Underarm to side bottom edge: 32 inches