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- 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.
- Ensemble: dress and stole
- Grés, Alix, 1903-1993 (designer)
- 1959
- Worn by donor, Mrs. Paul B. Magnuson, née Laura C. Thompson.
- Ensemble: dress and stole
- 1931
- Worn by donor while acting as Matron of Honor at the wedding of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Strauss, Jr., on June 14, 1931.
- Ensemble: dress and jacket
- Loper, Don, 1906-1972 (designer)
- 1955
- Worn by donor's aunt, Frances Abrams McCall, at her second wedding. Was originally worn with a very thin belt.
- Ensemble: dress and jacket
- Halston, 1932-1990 (designer)
- 1977
- Worn by donor.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ensemble: dress and jacket
- Dior, Christian (designer); Christian Dior, Inc. (designer)
- 1955
- Object was donated and worn by dancer and choreographer Ruth Page (Mrs. Thomas Hart Fisher).
- Ensemble: dress and detachable cape
- Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer)
- 1948
- Worn by donor, Mrs. Albert H. Newman, née Muriel Kallis.
- Ensemble: dress and bolero
- Donna Karan International (designer)
- circa 2000
- Worn by Noren Ungaretti.
- Ensemble: bodice, apron and skirt
- Kozak, Channah (designer); Kozak, Sara (designer)
- 1895
- Worn by Mrs. Moishe Kooperman, née Sara Kozak and her granddaughter, Mrs. Thomas George Mapp née Jane Sara Cooperman (the name's spelling changed when the family came to America). Designed and made in Ukraine by Channah Kozak and her daughter...
- Ensemble: bodice and skirt
- Heister, Mark (designer)
- 1980
- This evening gown was made by Mark Heister for Dorothy Fuller Englehaupt for the wedding of her son, William Englehaupt III. Mark Heister also designed the bride's and bridesmaid's dresses for the same wedding. At the time of purchase, this dress...
- Ensemble: bodice and skirt
- Cardin, Pierre, 1922- (designer); Blum's Vogue (Chicago, Ill.) (destributor)
- circa 1956
- Worn by donor, née Eloise Wright (b. October 28, 1914; m. May 4, 1940).
- Ensemble: blouse, skirt, and cummerbund
- Galanos, James, 1924- (designer); Bergdorf Goodman (distributor)
- circa 1973
- Worn by donor, née Maria Tallchief.
- Ensemble: blouse, skirt and underskirt
- Rhodes, Zandra, 1940- (designer)
- circa 1979
- Worn by Mrs. Angelo Richard Arena, née Alice Paluzuelos, to the opening of the Marshall Field & Co. store in Houston, Texas in November, 1980; to the opening of the Lyric Opera in September, 1981; to dinner honoring Princess Margaret at the Casino...
- Ensemble: blouse and skirt
- Broich, Christoph, 1966- (designer)
- 2004
- The donor wore this ensemble from 2004 to June of 2008 at various day and early evening functions both around Chicago and in Europe. She purchased the piece in Antwerp from the design house of Christoph Brioch, one of the leading Dutch contemporary...
- Ensemble: blouse and skirt
- Halle Bros. Co. (Cleveland, Ohio) (designer)
- 1926
- Wedding dress worn by Mrs. L. Hubbard (Elaine Black) Shattuck for her marriage, December 18, 1926. Mr. Shattuck was the director of the Chicago Historical Society from 1927-1945.
- Empress Josephine sweatshirt dress
- James, Charles, 1906-1978 (designer); Samuel Winston Inc. (manufacturer)
- 1953
- This ready-to wear dress was initially designed for and marketed by mass-manufacturer Samuel Winston. The exact number of copies manufactured is unknown, but at least one additional version (in brown and black wool) exists, located in the...
- Dress: bodice, skirt
- Nugent, Sarah (creator)
- 1897
- Worn by donor's mother, Mrs. James Groves (née Jane Nugent), on October 6, 1897 at Holy Angels Church on Oakwood Boulevard in Chicago. Made by bride's sister, Sarah Nugent, who learned to sew in Ireland.
- Dress: bodice and skirt
- 1863
- Dress was worn by Mary Jemima "Mima" Malcolm for her marriage to Thomas Raffington on January 4, 1863. Wear marks indicate that this dress was worn many times following the wedding.