Dress
Artist:
Oleg Cassini
(American, 1913 - 2006)
Date: c. 1920
Medium: Textile
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Spengler
Object number: 1976.39
DescriptionBlack velvet dress with no waist. A belt of same material is slung around the hips, attached at either hip to a plastic shield shaped medallion ringed with multi-colored wooden beads. Natural color lace ruffle at neck and cuffs with five single rows of chain stitch worked in the lace in five different colors.