Women's tennis dress

Titles: Women's tennis dress (Supplied title)

Description: Two-piece tennis dress of cream-colored wool twill consisting of a) jacket with blue-green suede collar, button front, & S-shaped vertical embroidery in blue-green floss; b) jacket belt of blue-green suede with chevron cutouts revealing cream wool; c) skirt cummerbund; d) skirt with no waistband, from Helen shop, Minneapolis, MN. Helen Gjertsen was the dressmaker at Dayton's Department store.

Dates

• Approximately 1910 (Creation)

Creation

• made by: Gjertsen, Helen
• retailed by: Dayton's (Department store)
• retailed by: Gjertsen sisters

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1990.167.2.A-D

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 4 items

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 42 3/4 inches circumference (1990.167.2.A, jacket, bustline)
• 42 1/2 inches circumference (1990.167.2.A, jacket, waistline)
• 28 1/2 inches circumference (1990.167.2.B, belt)
• 29 1/2 inches circumference (1990.167.2.C, sash)
• 36 1/2 inches length (1990.167.2.D, skirt, waist to hem, front)
• 38 1/4 inches length (1990.167.2.D, skirt, waist to hem, side)
• 37 inches length (1990.167.2.D, skirt, waist to hem, back)
• 27 inches circumference (1990.167.2.D, skirt, waistline)
• 175 3/4 inches circumference (1990.167.2.D, skirt, hem)

Subjects

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