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    • Butterfly

    • Butterfly

    • James, Charles, 1906-1978 (designer); Marshall Field & Company (distributor)

    • 1954

    • Charles James originally designed the Butterfly ball gown for Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Jr., for the price of $1,250. The sculptural design lives up to a comment once made by Spanish couturier Cristbal Balenciaga, "Charles James is not only the...
    • Cape

    • Cape

    • Robina (Paris, France) (designer)

    • circa 1900

    • Worn by Mrs. Bertha Honoré Palmer.
    • Cape

    • Cape

    • Liberty & Co. (designer)

    • 1904

    • Worn by Mrs. Benjamin Carpenter, née Helen Graham Fairbanks.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Comme des Garçons (designer)

    • circa 1996

    • Worn by Mrs. Ronald Krueck, née Anstiss Hammond.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Fath, Jacques, 1912-1954 (designer)

    • 1951

    • Worn by Mrs. Harry Drake (1907-1997), née Alice Bremner. This dress was featured in the March 1951 issue of American Vogue.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Douellieut (Paris, France) (creator)

    • 1900

    • Worn by Mrs. Bertha Honoré Palmer.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Versace, Gianni (designer)

    • 1991

    • Worn by Mrs. Clyde Engle.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Halston International (designer)

    • circa 1975

    • Worn by donor, Mrs. John Swearingen.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Adrian, 1903-1959 (designer)

    • 1938

    • Worn by donor, Mrs. Henry P. Isham.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer)

    • 1883

    • Worn by Mrs. Henry Nelson Tuttle, née Fannie Farwell.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Halston, 1932-1990 (designer); I. Magnin & Co. (distributor)

    • circa 1977

    • Worn by donor, née Abra Prentice, born on July 30, 1942, married on September 14, 1968, and divorced in 1976.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Halston, 1932-1990 (designer); I. Magnin & Co. (distributor)

    • circa 1976

    • Worn by donor, née Lynne Walker (born 1928, married July 19, 1969 to Leo Durocher). Worn with silver sandals, diamond and pearl jewelry, and fur wrap to the Chicago Lyric Opera opening in 1976 and the Big Brothers Charity Ball at the Casino Club,...
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Valentina, ca.1899-1989 (designer)

    • 1934

    • Worn by Mrs. Walter Paepcke, née Elizabeth Nitze (1902-94).
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Molyneux, Edward H. (designer)

    • 1935

    • Worn by the donor, Mrs. Foster Adams, née Courtney Letts.
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971 (designer)

    • 1925

    • Worn by Mrs. Foster Adams, née Courtney Letts and then Mrs. John Borden, while she sat for her portrait which hung in the Borden's drawing room. Donor's note: "Made by Chanel, Paris, 1925, for portrait to be painted in London, by Hilary Strain,...
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Lanvin, Jeanne, 1867-1946 (designer)

    • 1937

    • Worn by donor, Mrs. Foster Adams, née Courtney Letts
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971 (designer)

    • 1931

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

    • Dress

    • Paquin, Jeanne, 1869-1936 (designer)

    • 1910

    • Worn by Mrs. Henry A. Rumsey. In 1911, the Rumseys commissioned a grand home - modeled after the eighteenth-century Clifford Manor House in Warwickshire, England - on eight acres in Lake Forest, Illinois. The label on this dress states it was made...
    • Dress

    • Dress

    • Chaumont, Marcelle, b. 1871 (designer)

    • circa 1938

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

    • Dress

    • Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer); Worth and Bobergh (designer)

    • circa 1884

    • Worn by Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormick, née Nancy "Nettie" Fowler (1835-1923).

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