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Cocktail culture through the decades

Ring in 2012 with a look at 20th-century party life through fashion and art

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    Newark Museum

    Cocktail Set, 1925-28

    Erik Magnussen for Gorham Manufacturing Co.

    Silver, bakelite

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    ©Tiffany & Co. Archives 2010

    Tiffany cosmetic set with cigarette case, 1925-1930
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    Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence/Photo: Erik Gould

    Dress, ca. 1925 (French)

    A. and L. Triocchi, dressmaker and retailer, Providence, 1913-1947

    Silk cellophane, sequins, jet beads; net embroidered

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    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Woman’s jewelry suite in four pieces (necklace), 1950s (American)

    Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian (active in France), 1890-1973

    Silver-colored metal and colored glass “gems”

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    Courtesy of Lillian Bassman

    Suzy Parker, "The V-Back Evenings," 1955 (Reinterpreted 1994)

    Skirt and V-back by Grenelle and hat by Lilly Dache

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    Courtesy of Holden Luntz Gallery/Photo: Ormond Gigli, 1960

    Ormond Gigli, "Girls in the Windows," 1960

    Color coupler photograph

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    Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Larry Salk, "Summer Cocktail Party With English Butler," 1961

    Watercolor, gouache, ink

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    Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Fred H. Greenhill Jr., "Manhattan Cocktail Party, ca. 1964" (Illustration for Saks Fifth Avenue advertisement)

 

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