Feria-style flamenco dress

NameDress

Artist Artist not recorded

Date1940s - 1950s

Place madeNew Mexico, United States, NORTH AMERICA

Mediumcotton, metal, starch

Dimensions51 3/16 × 28 3/8 × 9 13/16 in. (130 × 72 × 25 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Lynn Hathaway, A.2018.46.1

Object numberA.2018.46.1

Collections

Folk Art of New Mexico

DescriptionYouth white cotton flamenco dress with blue polka dots (lunares). Starched skirt with five tiers of ruffles. The v-necked bodice has two shaping darts extending upwards from the waist. The short sleeves have two tiers of ruffles. All the ruffles --skirt and sleeves--are edged in a solid blue 1.3 cm strip. The back also is v-necked with darts and a metal zipper closure of 40 cm extending from the neck into the skirt. A hook (missing) and eye finish the closure.