Dress comprising blouse and skirt in raw umber and black fine gauge herringbone worsted wool – (Claire Mccardell Wiseman) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Claire Mccardell Wiseman

Date: 1954

Museum: Museum of the City of New York (New York, United States)

Technique: Textile

Raw umber and black fine gauge herringbone worsted wool dress. A: Waist-length blouse; back standing collar cut-in-one with shoulder panels; long batwing sleeeves; center front hook-and-eye closure. B: Dirndl skirt, mid-calf length; side-seamed front panel fully gathered over stomach, straight from hips to symmetrically positioned deep single knife pleats facing center, joined to waistband; center front hook-and-eye closure; unlined. Labels, A: claire mccardell clothes / by townley ; Sports & Country Clothes / Lord & Taylor / Fifth Avenue. Worn by Rosemary Barnsdall Blackmon.