Mount Mary University Digital Collections

Dress

Item

Title

Dress

Description

Ivory wool dress; sweetheart neckline; ivory tulle illusion panel with lace detailing covers bosom to standing collar; similar illusion panel at back; center back hook and eye closures; short wool sleeves, gathered at shoulders; long tulle undersleeves with lace detailing; full length skirt; soutache braid trim all over bodice and down center front and back of skirt; slightly trained; cotton lining. Part of a theater suit with coat (Object ID #2022.05.01.b).

This suit is an exact reproduction of a 1908 theater suit in the collection of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The donor made this replica as her senior project in Fashion Design at Mount Mary College in 1974.

Relation

Coat (Object ID #2022.05.01.b)

Creator

Nowakowski, Mary Fulop

Date

1974

Source

Donor: Mary Fulop Nowakowski

Identifier

Object ID #2022.05.01.a
https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/files/original/f4359ae159562e8e1d2332b51606cc71.jpg

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Subject

Clothing and dress

Type

Still Image

Format

360 View

Citation

Nowakowski, Mary Fulop, “Dress,” Mount Mary University Digital Collections, accessed March 28, 2024, https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/items/show/3376.