Description:
One piece, sheath-style full length formal dress made from velours au sabre in black satin with scattered red roses with green stems. The dress was owned by Helen Geier Flynt. Historic Deerfield has a photograph, HD 94.815, dated December 15, 1967, in which Mrs. Flynt is wearing this dress. The dress features a sweetheart neckline, a large magenta-colored rose on the proper left side of front (at the waist level), and a pair of inverted box pleats at either side of both the front and back. There is a zipper closure on the proper left side. Generally in very good condition, the pink flower is unsewn in some areas; the box pleats show signs of tension; and there is some thread loss. Mrs. Flynt patroned Frecerick's, an exclusive women's store in Spring Lake, New Jersey; this unlabeled garment could have been made there, or by a dressmaker near the Flynt's home in Greenwich, Connecticut. The fabric's pattern of red roses with green stems (accented with naturalistic brown highlights) against a black ground was frequently used in the late 1950s; the Chicago History Museum own s a dress from Christian Dior haute couture for Marshall Field's made from a similar fabric.
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