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Daily Mirror, England, May 14, 1920 Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.

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Portrait of Jenny Lind, 1862, by Eduard Magnus (1799-1872)

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Day Dress

1880-1885

United States

The MET (Accession Number: C.I.65.2.1a, b)

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Chicago Cafe, Los Angeles, 1937

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Currie’s Ice Cream parlor, Los Angeles, ca. 1935

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Bess Wallace (later Truman, when she became the wife of Harry S Truman in 1919) with friends, 1905

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Baronne De Crussol, 1785 Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

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Albert Chevallier Tayler (British, 1862-1925)

Trying Them On, 1892

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Unknown men, 1938, Sweden.

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Folke Janson, 1929, Sweden.

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• Dress.

Date: 1920's-1930's

Medium: Silk

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• Evening Dress: Butterfly.

Designer/Maker: Charles James 1906-1978); Distributor: Marshall Field & Company

Place of origin: New York

Date: 1954

Medium: Silk chiffon, silk faille, DuPont nylon tulle.

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• Slip Style Dress.

Designer/Maker: Norman Norell

Date: 1966

Medium: Chartreuse and white stripes of plastic sequins, sequin waist band, two attached sequined flowers at waist located on left.

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1872-1874 Two-piece cotton summer walking dress

(Museum of Costume and Lace, Brussels)

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ab. 1958 Evening dress by La Petite, Melbourne (fashion house), Pat Rogers (designer)

silk, cotton, tulle, glass (beads), plastic (sequins), metal

(National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

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Woman with snowshoes, 1909

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1920′s French evening dress with sequin and bead embroidery on a cotton base. From Coutura Vintage, Australia.