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French

Dress, ca. 1927

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

French

Title

Dress

Year

ca. 1927

Medium

Silk net with embroidery

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silk

Dimensions

101.6 cm (40 inches) (center back length)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Made in France

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume

Credit

Gift of L. J. Cella III

Object Number

1990.129.44

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Art and Design of Spider Silk

September 27, 2019 - April 19, 2020

Cinema often plays a role in setting fashion trends, and in the late 1920s the Chinese silent film Pan si dong (also released as The Cave of Silken Web and Cave of the Spider Women) inspired a number of spider-web-embellished garments in Europe. From this lace dress embroidered with webs to the Vionnet gown decorated with a glass-bead web at the hip, it was in vogue to be a “black widow.”

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Dress with the accession number of 1990.129.44. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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