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    • Overcoat

    • Overcoat
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    • circa 1870

    • Worn by Mrs. Bertha Honoré Palmer.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Adrian, 1903-1959 (designer)

    • 1938

    • Worn by donor, Mrs. Henry P. Isham.
    • Ensemble: dress and vest

    • Ensemble: dress and vest

    • Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer)

    • 1966

    • Worn by donor, Mrs. William McCormick Blair Jr., who purchased the dress for $2,125 and wore this Balenciaga evening gown to an opening of the Metropolitan Opera.
    • Dress with wrap

    • Dress with wrap

    • Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer)

    • 1961

    • Worn by Mrs. George Connor. Worn for the last time by model Shelley MacArthur in 1985 Chicago Historical Society Donor's Ball Fashion Show.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer)

    • circa 1955

    • Dress made for and worn by donor, Mrs. Henry R. Luce (née Clare Boothe) when she was United Sates Ambassador to Italy, 1953-1957.
    • Ensemble: dress and jacket

    • Ensemble: dress and jacket

    • Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer)

    • circa 1955

    • Made for and worn by the donor, Mrs. Henry R. Luce (née Clare Boothe), when she was made a Dame of the Knights of Malta.
    • Overcoat

    • Overcoat

    • Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer)

    • circa 1950

    • Worn by the donor.
    • Overcoat

    • Overcoat

    • Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer)

    • 1950

    • Worn by Kathleen Catlin, née Kathleen Tharaldsen. Cristbal Balenciaga appealed primarily to connoisseurs of fashion who understood his style of avant garde classicism. One of Balenciaga's most successful 1950 designs, this wrap appeared in...
    • Ensemble: dress and jacket

    • Ensemble: dress and jacket

    • Beene, Geoffrey, 1924-2004 (designer); I. Magnin & Co. (manufacturer)

    • 1987

    • Purchased from I. Magnin with funds provided by the Costume Committee.
    • Overcoat

    • Overcoat

    • Blass, Bill (designer)

    • 1968

    • Worn by donor; worn by Carol Columbus-Green. Purchased at Stanley Korshak. Worn with dress 1988.536.1.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Callot Soeurs (Firm) (designer)

    • circa 1928

    • Worn by Mrs. Potter Palmer II, née Pauline Kohlsaat.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Callot Soeurs (Firm) (designer)

    • circa 1925

    • Worn by Mrs. Potter Palmer II, née Pauline Kohlsaat.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Callot Soeurs (Firm) (designer)

    • 1921

    • Worn by Mrs. Potter Palmer II, née Pauline Kohlsaat.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Callot Soeurs (Firm) (designer)

    • 1930

    • Worn by Mrs. Potter Palmer II, née Pauline Kohlsaat.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Chanel (Firm) (designer)

    • 1994

    • Oprah Winfrey purchased this gown from the Chanel Boutique on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago and wore it on a yachting excursion on Lake Michigan.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971 (designer)

    • 1931

    • Worn by Miss Jeannette Lawrence Young (1901-89).
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971 (designer)

    • 1926

    • Worn by donor, Mrs. C. Phillip Miller, née Florence Lowden, daughter of Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois and Mrs. Lowden who was a daughter of George Mortimer Pullman.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Chaumont, Marcelle, b. 1871 (designer)

    • circa 1938

    • Worn by donor, Mrs. Howard Linn.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Comme des Garçons (designer)

    • circa 1992

    • Worn by Mrs. Howard Bernstein.

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