COLLECTION NAME:
History of Costume
Record
Title:
Afternoon dresses
Creator.Persons:
Poiret, Paul
Author:
Patricia Quinn Stuart and Stephen Sbarge
Date:
1908
Description:
Two afternoon dresses. Poiret uses rich vivid colors and layers his clothes with light-weight fabrics, e.g. gauze tulle or chiffon over satin crepe de chine. He lines his coats in taffeta and crepe. His clothes are often trimmed and finished with metallic and embroidered braid. The dress on the left is pink satin striped gauze, the bottle green gown on the right is in silk gauze with metallic embroidered dots (Paul Iribe, illustrator)
Subject.Persons:
Poiret, Paul ;Iribe, Paul, 1883-1935
Subject:
Costume -- History
Current Repository:
Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.)
Style/Period:
20th century: 1900-1910
Collection Title:
History of Costume
Publisher.Location:
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Publisher:
Slide Presentations
Date.Published:
copyright 1975
Image.Date:
2007
Image.Publisher:
University of Nebraska, Architecture Visual Resources Collection
Collection information:
Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
