Dinner dress
Designer Muriel King American
Textile manufactured by Bianchini-Férier French
Not on view
For the soignée Muriel King, a dinner dress could take on the effect of separates, even emulating a nineteenth-century military spencer at the high-waisted curve of the waistline. The lower portion of the dress with its striped fabric appears to be a separate underdress, reflecting the casual ethos of sportswear like so many other fresh stripes of the 1930s and 1940s.
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