1930 evening gown

Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.Photograph probably taken for Peggy Hamilton's Los Angeles Times feature "Fashions"Paramount actress Kathleen Burke modeling a close-fitting evening gown with an empire waist and with an ostrich feather wrap around her shoulders.

Madeleine Vionnet (22 June 1876, Chilleurs-aux-Bois – 2 March 1975, Paris), one of the greatest, most innovative, most influential fashion designers of all time. Referred to as the "queen of the bias cut" and the "architect among dressmakers", she is best known for the simple elegance of her classically-inspired designs and for popularizing the bias cut; aided by the enthusiastic embrace of Hollywood, the bias cut became the look of the Thirties. Born into a poor family, and with hardly any…

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SILVER SATIN EVENING GOWN, 1930s

She Couldn't Take It (1935)

Paramount, 1934. A peach-colored silk evening gown worn by Carole Lombard as Doris Worthington in the musical We’re Not Dressing co-starring B