Dress
Although she had an old-fashioned sensibility for the feminine that defined waists in belts and cummerbunds in otherwise cylindrical silhouettes, Lucile was modern in her use of tissue-thin layerings and veilings. A modern-day Salome has to be envisioned in these dresses. If lingerie dressing was and has always been a modern impulse, Lucile managed to create its most conservative and proper version.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dress
- Design House: Lucile Ltd., New York (American, 1910–1932)
- Designer: Lucy Christiana Duff-Gordon (British, 1863–1935)
- Date: 1916–17
- Culture: American
- Medium: silk, cotton
- Credit Line: Gift of Julia B. Henry, 1978
- Object Number: 1978.288.1a, b
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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