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This beaded dress, meant for a gala evening party, shows how the simple "chemise" form could be covered with decorative images like a painter's canvas. Here the designer of the dress has used exotic foliage as the central motif, rendered in brilliant color that reflects modernist ideas.

 

 

 

Unknown maker
Dress with Exotic Foliage Design, ca. 1926
Silk; net, embroidered
with sequins and beads

Gift of L. J. Cella III
1990.129.2

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