Resource Type

Serial/Series Title

Evening Dress

Design for evening dress. Outline sketch in blue illustrates the front view of a sheath style dress with an asymmetric neckline. Left side shoulder strap extends across bodice and around the waist. Skirt is trimmed with bands matching the bodice.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening or wedding dress. Color sketch illustrates three views of a dress with a lace illusion neckline that forms a deep V in back. Fitted ruched skirt with ruffle at hem gathers to large bow at back hips with tiered, ruffled train. Third view shows front of dress with matching lace cape.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates the front view of a gown with double yoked, V-shaped neckline and long sleeves with bell shaped cuffs. Shoulders, sleeves and left side of dress accented with curled trim.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates the full length, front view of a white dress. Strapless neckline with V-shaped cutouts at sides. Full length tunic style skirt has asymmetric upper skirt which closes at left hip with five tabs; vent at left side hem.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates the full length, front view of a purple, trumpet style gown. Asymmetric neckline drapes at right shoulder. Draped detail at hips matches neckline. Two fabric swatches at top of sketch with handwritten notes state "pure silk" and "peau de soie".
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates the full front view of a light green column inspired gown with right shoulder asymmetric neckline. Left neckline strap drapes across bodice and across right side of dress and joins at left side of skirt at knee area.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening or wedding dress. Color sketch illustrates an A-line gown with asymmetric, wrapped front bordered in heavy trim. Wide neckline; sleeveless.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Signed design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates a pink dress with fitted skirt in four tiers with sheer, inserted accents down right side. V-shaped neckline with narrow, looped shoulder straps. Designer's signature at feet of model.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates green gown with empire waist and asymmetric neckline. Long scarf ties at left waist and trails down left side.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates the back view of a dress with a strapless neckline, ruched left side and fan-shaped train. Floral applique accents down left side of bodice, back hips, and base of ruching. Smaller, outline sketch of front view at upper right; handwritten designer's notes at top and bottom of sketch.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Signed design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates full length view of a mermaid style gown. Sweetheart neckline is accented with ombre colored boa inspired trim over back of neck; trim extends down left side of gown to hem. Designer's signature at bottom right of sketch at hemline of dress.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening or dinner dress. Color sketch illustrates a fitted dress in laced fabric with large peplum inspired interest at right hip. Asymmetric cut out shoulders with long, fitted sleeves. Below knee length. Designer's initials at feet of model.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates the front and back views of a green gown. Neckline features a scarf detail across the front that gathers at the right shoulder and attaches with a broach detail; deep U-shaped back. Skirt is draped with two panels matching scarf at neckline.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening dress. Color sketch in pink and blue illustrates full length front and back views of an evening dress with off the shoulder neckline and fitted skirt. Left sketch shows a straight skirt with draping at hips; back view at right illustrates fan-shaped train from center waist.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates full length green sheath style dress with left side asymmetric neckline and right shoulder strap. Sheer wrap detail around skirt starts at right armscye and ties at left hip.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Dress

Signed design for evening dress. Color sketch illustrates white dress with red accents. Asymmetric neckline with wide, structured loop at right shoulder and wide strap over left shoulder held in place with two oversized buttons. Fitted skirt drapes at hips. Designer's signature at hem of dress.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Gown

Design for evening gown. Colored sketch of light gray gown with deep V-shaped neckline and floral accents on shoulders. Peplum detail at hips trimmed in floral accents matching shoulders. Full gathered skirt with sheer top layer.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Gown

Design for evening gown. Color sketch illustrates the full length, front and back views of a light blue 1810s inspired gown. Empire waist with lace bodice and short, puffed sleeves; jewel neckline in front forms a deep U-shape in back. Full skirt gathers at waist and is drawn into a large bow at left hem.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Gown

Designs for evening gowns. Outline sketch illustrates the front views of two gowns. Left side gown has laced cape collar and long sleeves with pointed hems. Right side gown shows wide neckline with loop detail extending down left side of dress. Detailing on gown suggests that it is possibly trimmed in feathers.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Gown

Design for evening or wedding gown. Sketch illustrates three views of a white gown with strapless neckline and heavily trimmed/beaded off the shoulder over bodice that closes at center front and forms a deep U-shaped back. Third view at bottom right corner illustrates a different bodice with draped one-shoulder neckline.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Gown

Signed design for evening gown. Color sketch illustrates gown with empire waist and A-line gathered skirt. Bodice with U-shaped illusion bodice and choker collar with bodice and sleeve trim matching collar. Designer's signature at bottom left hem of gown: "Lilli Wolff".
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Gown

Design for evening gown. Color sketch with dress in black and white and flesh tone female form. Strapless neckline; empire waist; full length.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evening Gown

Design for evening gown. Color sketch of dress in orange with black spots with orange and black ruffle down left side and around train hem. Off-the-shoulder neckline. Full length fitted skirt with four pleats below hips.
Date: 1950/1969
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Fashion Design]

Original fashion design by Lilli Wolff. Possibly for a festival gown, design for a female figure with yellow full skirted dress. Various penciled notes and two penciled variations for the skirt design. Believed to have been done between 1945 and 1960, most likely in Dallas, Texas.
Date: 1950/1980
Creator: Wolff, Lilli
System: The UNT Digital Library