Evening dress
spring/summer 1947
Materials
cellulose acetate
House / label
House of Jacques Fath
Collection
spring/summer 1947
Archive reference
1993.55
Behind the design
Fath exposed lacing across the narrow bodice of this pink evening dress from spring/summer 1947. The Met connects its deliberate reference to corsetry with the tightly defined waist of postwar fashion. Its recorded material, cellulose acetate, gives the historically suggestive structure a distinctly twentieth-century substance.
