"Scarlett O'Hara" exhibition "Drapery" dress and hat from Gone With the Wind. ...

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"Scarlett O'Hara" exhibition "Drapery" dress and hat from Gone With the Wind. "Scarlett O'Hara" exhibition "Drapery" dress and hat from Gone With the Wind. Dark and light green velvet two-piece period dress with green and gold twisted cording along one shoulder and waist with two large tassels on skirt.  Top has shoulder cape on one side with hook & eye front closure.  Top portion of full skirt has front slit with moss green velvet underskirt.  Hook & eye back closure.  Also included is an ivory ruffled petticoat with draw string waist.  All pieces have blank Western Costume labels.  Coordinating moss green velvet period hat with twisted gold cording trim, black iridescent feathers and faux chicken foot.  Harry Rotz label with blank Western Costume label.  This dress and hat were created for exhibition purposes only.  Cara Varnell, the museum conservator who worked on the original dress at the University of Texas/Austin, was consulted on color and detail for the entire costume including the faux chicken foot on the hat.  Great expense and painstaking detail went into recreating the tassels which were created by the same manufacturer who made the originals for 1939 dress.

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