skirt, costume
Catalog Number
2001.21.113gDescription
37" x 12" x .125"; blue-green, sheer georgette crepe forming a full skirt; a 10" yoke of gold fabric is decorated with beads and a huge orange set, with oval bangles at lower edge of yoke, matching bra; gold sequins on front design and decorating hem; beads are discolored; very stained, torn.History
Objects in accession 2001.21 belonged to Holland, MI residents John J. Zych (1907-2001), his wife Madalene Edding Zych (1905-1990) and their daughter Elizabeth “Betty” Zych Carsello (1926-1963).The Zych’s lived at 31 West 1st Street (Holland, MI) from 1936 through 1947. They later lived at 256 West 23rd Street in Holland, MI.
John worked for the Holland Hitch Company (1940-1945) and the Holland Racine Shoe Company (1947-1958). Madalene worked briefly for Crampton Manufacturing.
Betty operated a dance studio in Holland, Betty Jeane’s School of Dance.
John and Madalene are buried in Pilgrim Home Cemetery.