Evening dress

Designer Claire McCardell American
 Manufacturer Townley Frocks American

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McCardell prized the Empire silhouette, especially for evening. After all, she was preeminently a designer of daywear. As independent as McCardell was, she knew well the European tradition in fashion and admired the soft silhouettes of the early 1800s and the 1920s. For evening, the Empire silhouette represented a grace that was once achieved only in couture softness, but for which McCardell had found the ready-to-wear counterpart at no compromise to elegance.

Evening dress, Claire McCardell (American, 1905–1958), silk, American

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Evening dress, Claire McCardell (American, 1905–1958), silk, American
Evening dress, Claire McCardell (American, 1905–1958), silk, American

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