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Evening gown
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In the 1920s the silhouette became straighter and the natural waistline was ignored. The Russian-French designer Romain de Tirtoff (Erté) designed this evening gown for a fashion house in San Francisco. The fabric is woven of silver-plated copper thread and embroidered with coloured glass beads and pearls. The stylized Persian and Egyptian motifs were all the rage thanks to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s grave in 1922.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineAvondjapon. c. 1922 - c. 1924. Erté. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
