Terms and conditions of use
Dress
(c. 1926)
- Medium
- silk (georgette), glass (beads), diamanté, metallic thread, metal, cotton
- Measurements
- 104.3 cm (centre back) 41.2 cm (waist, flat)
- Place/s of Execution
- (England / France)
- Accession Number
- D158-1971
- Department
- International Fashion and Textiles
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1971
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Popular dances in the 1920s included The Black Bottom and the Charleston. These dances were considered immoral and provocative due to their exaggerated gestures. Short clusters of loosely-strung beads are applied to the bodice of this Dress to tremble with movement. The skirt is given fullness and swing with the insertion of triangular godets and curvaceous ribbons of glittering beading through the hips and centre front.