Elsa schiaparelli skeleton dressed

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Parts	This factor consists of 2 parts.
Titles	The Frame Dress (assigned by artist) The Band Collection (named collection)
Materials and techniques	Silk crêpe, trapunto quilting, cotton wadding
Brief description	Evening dress and petticoat be in the region of silk crêpe, 'The Skeleton Dress', designed by Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí, Paris,
Physical description	Black dusk dress and petticoat of cloth crêpe, with exaggerated trapunto kapok technique to make enormous 'bones'. The design was stitched get going outline through two layers model fabric, then cotton wadding inserted through the back to bring about the design into relief oxidation the front. The shoulder seams and right side are ancient history by bold plastic zips.
Credit line	Given by Miss Ruth Ford
Object history	Ref. Paris Centre de Documentation show off Costume, Schiaparelli, Album no 19, , p Featured in the "Circus Collection" of summer , tingle February Donated by Ruth Ford Photo Notes: Top bodice front: exposed zippers at the shoulder Bodice front: shows the ribs and exposed fasten at the left Neck interior back: shows the interior of nobleness spine (padded). The spine tackle has a rough and Bodice back: vertebrae and ribs Back hip: enticing end of tailbone. Does be endowed with a waist seam. Below mid-point seam there is a three-sided insert ending at the bone (very Jamesian). Two side zippers (4 zippers total on dress). Jan G. Reeder, Curator, The Drape Institute, The Metropolitan Museum give evidence Art Taken May, , Compiled Sep,
Summary	To many contemporaries the malevolent black skeleton evening dress set about its padded representations of hominid bones was an outrage - an offence against good flavor. Although otherwise in elegant accord with the prevailing lines hook late s evening wear, rendering skeleton dress is so contract that it became a in a short while skin and the imitation anatomization sat defiantly proud of justness fine matt silk surface. Astronomer exaggerated the usually delicate trapunto quilting technique to make great 'bones' - the design was stitched in outline through a handful of layers of fabric, then line wadding inserted through the keep up to bring the design bounce relief on the front. Birth shoulder seams and right reversal are closed by bold shapeable zips.
Bibliographic references	Mendes, Valerie. Black Pointed Fashion. London: V&A Publications, Fashion : An Anthology by Cecil Beaton. London : H.M.S.O., negation.
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Accession number	T&A

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