Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Halter-style dress with a tie at the neck and a deep flounce at the bottom. Looping is tighter in the mid-section to provide shaping. Geometric pattern of diamond patterns in off-white, tan, dark brown and dark blue.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Lydia Novillo, (Argentine, born 1969)
- Maker
- Lydia Novillo, (Argentine, born 1969)
- Date
- 2009
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Friends of Textiles Fund
- Medium
- Medium: chaguar fiber (bromeliad family) Technique: interconnected looping and crocheted Label: Chaguar fiber in interconnected looping and crochet
- Dimensions
- H x W: 176.7 x 77.3 cm (5 ft. 9 9/16 in. x 30 7/16 in.); includes tie
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Dress
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