Dress form
A Jennie dress form and the plaster mold in which it was made. The mold was created by plastering over the original clay or plaster form James sculpted in 1949.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dress form
- Designer: Charles James (American, born Great Britain, 1906–1978)
- Date: 1949
- Culture: American
- Medium: plaster
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009
- Object Number: 2009.300.8498a, b
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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