Dinner dress
For the soignée Muriel King, a dinner dress could take on the effect of separates, even emulating a nineteenth-century military spencer at the high-waisted curve of the waistline. The lower portion of the dress with its striped fabric appears to be a separate underdress, reflecting the casual ethos of sportswear like so many other fresh stripes of the 1930s and 1940s.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dinner dress
- Designer: Muriel King (American, 1900–1977)
- Manufacturer: Textile manufactured by Bianchini-Férier (French, founded Lyons, 1888)
- Date: 1937–38
- Culture: American
- Medium: silk
- Credit Line: Gift of Fashion Institute of Technology, 1974
- Object Number: 1974.135
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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late 1930s
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1935–39
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