Dress
Tying at the waist and neckline became an element used universally by Claire McCardell. The folk tradition yielded to First Empire proto-modernism, especially in clothing for the evening. For McCardell, this plebeian and even rustic naturalism could be sustained for evening through the force of its simple lines and its approximation to the haute-couture draping of Madeleine Vionnet and Madame Grès.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dress
- Designer: Claire McCardell (American, 1905–1958)
- Manufacturer: Townley Frocks (American, 1929–1938; 1940–ca. 1968)
- Manufacturer: Textile manufactured by Stonecutter Mills
- Date: ca. 1950
- Culture: American
- Medium: rayon
- Credit Line: Polaire Weissman Fund, 1997
- Object Number: 1997.193.2
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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