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Evening Dress
48.78
Temporary Exhibition: "Wedding Belles: Bridal Fashions from the Marjorie Merriweather Post Family, 1874-1958"

COSTUME, POST FAMILY
Dress (Garment)
Callot Soeurs
FRANCE: Paris
1930-1935
Crêpe-backed satin, crêpe chiffon
H. 15 1/2 in. (shoulder to waist front); H. 16 in. (shoulder to waist back); Dia. 26 1/2 in. (waist circumference); H. 44 in. (waist to hem front); H. 45 in. (waist to hem back); Dia. 124 in. (hem circumference)
4 x 5 Color Transparency, 1-2/2005

Marjorie Merriweather Post's daughter, Eleanor Post Close (1909-2007), wore this gown for her marriage to Etienne Marie Robert Gautier in Paris on April 4, 1933.

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973

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4 x 5 Color Transparency, 1-2/2005
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