APPLIED ART : COSTUME
Object Name
Evening Dress
Date Made
1915 circa
1915 circa
1915 circa
Description
design : Embroidered black crepe over mide blue satin.
From exhibition label early 2000s
Worn by the Belfast writer and historian, the late Mary McNeill, this dress also shows the taste for strong colours, fashionable in the second decade of the 20th c, which was such a contrast to the early Edwardian pastels.
1. Around waist: 72cms
2. Around bust: 94cms (ref: bust to waist=15.5)
3. Around ribcage: 80cms
4. Bust point to bust point: 20cms (ref: bust to wasit = 15.5cms)
5. Shoulde pt to side waist: 32cms
6. Nape to back waist: approx 35cms
7. Across front: 37cms (ef: shoulder pt to front = 14cms)
8. Across back 37cms (ref: shoulder pt to back = 14cms)
9. Length of shoulde: 9cms
10. Front neckline to waist: 21cms
11. Back neckline to waist: 21.5cms
12. Length of arm/sleeve: Approx 48cms
13. Around waist/cuff: 23cms
14. Around bicpes:
15. Around forearm:
16. Around hip: 87.5 (ref: from waist = 8cm)
17. Around bottom: 103cms (ref: from waist = 20cms)
18. Front length of skirt: 96cm
19. Side length of skirt: 96cms
20. Back length of skirt: 96cms
21. Around hem of skirt: 128cms
Catalogue Number
BELUM.T2370
Copyright
National Museums NI