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- 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
- 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
- Douellieut (Paris, France) (creator)
- 1900
- Worn by Mrs. Bertha Honoré Palmer.
- Dress
- Versace, Gianni (designer)
- 1991
- Worn by Mrs. Clyde Engle.
- Dress
- Geoffrey Beene, Inc. (designer)
- circa 1995
- Worn by Mrs. Jules N. Stiffel, née Lisbeth Cherniack.
- Dress
- Poiret, Paul, 1879-1944 (designer)
- 1914
- Worn by Mrs. Frank Granger Logan, neé Josephine Hancock, mother of the donors.
- Dress
- Halston International (designer)
- circa 1975
- Worn by donor, Mrs. John Swearingen.
- Dress
- 1891
- Gown from trousseau of Mrs. Andrew Chevalier (née Leila Abi Leonard) Woods.
- Dress
- Marshall Field & Company (distributor)
- 1912
- Worn by donor, née Pauline Brewster, at her marriage to I. Newton Perry on April 20, 1912.
- Dress
- Marshall Field & Company (distributor)
- 1909
- Worn by Dorothy Fuller at her wedding to Bruce Borland in 1909.
- Dress
- Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio, 1908-1984 (designer); Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (designer)
- 1950
- Worn by donor, née Katherine Woodruff, at her marriage to Marshall Field, Jr. The dress was designed by Antonio Cánova del Castillo who opened the Haute Couture Department of the Elizabeth Arden Salon in New York in 1945.
- Dress
- Amies, Hardy, 1909-2003 (designer)
- 1948
- Worn by donor, Virginie Washburne, at her 1948 wedding to Henry P. Isham, Jr. and again in 1949 to the wedding of Robert T. Isham and Bleecker Burnett.
- Dress
- 1875
- Part of the trousseau of Mrs. George F. Winslow, mother of the donor.
- Dress
- Adrian, 1903-1959 (designer)
- 1938
- Worn by donor, Mrs. Henry P. Isham.
- Dress
- Dior, Christian (designer); Christian Dior, Inc. (designer)
- circa 1950
- Worn by donor, Mrs. Gardner H. Stern, née Hanchen Strauss.
- Dress
- House of Doeuillet-Doucet (designer)
- 1932
- Worn by donor at the wedding of her daughter Inez to Gonzalo de la Gandara in Biarritz, France, in November 1932 and also at the wedding of her granddaughter Luz de la Gandara to Count Adas Goluchowski in Madrid, Spain in December 1953.
- Dress
- Worth, Charles Frédérick, 1825-1895 (designer)
- 1883
- Worn by Mrs. Henry Nelson Tuttle, née Fannie Farwell.
- Dress
- Dior, Christian (designer); Christian Dior, Inc. (designer)
- circa 1954
- This dress was worn by the donor, Mrs. Henry D. Paschen (Maria Tallchief). Although the donor does not remember altering this garment, there are signs of alterations throughout the bodice, waist and skirt hem. The original lining to the bodice has...
- 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
- 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,...