Exhibition
Flora
and Fashion: Gardens Become Us!
Stager Gallery, January
26, 2000 to January 28, 2001
Jean Druesedow, Curator
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Evening dress
French, about 1892
Yellow silk chiffon and satin embroidered with silver plumes, trimmed
with white artificial chrysanthemums
Label: M. Laferriere, Robes et Mantaux, 28 rue Taitbout, Paris
The Silverman/Rodgers Collection, 1983.1.173
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The wide, low décolletage with short sleeves baring the shoulders and arms combined with the long train and elegant fabrics indicate that this gown was most probably worn to a formal evening occasion such as a ball, or, perhaps, the opera.
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