Mrs., Latex gloves, Textiles, 48" x 30", Ladies Size 12, 2012

 

Used as a window display for The Clothing Warehouse in downtown Savannah from May 21 until May 28 of 2012. A 1950's cocktail dress, with a vintage lace skirt and a bodice made entirely of industrial rubber gloves, this piece is composed of nearly 100 glove finger tips sewed on one at a time and twenty-two latex panels. An homage to the housewife, this mundane tool used for cleaning is stripped of its mechanical usefulness and elevated to an elegant trapping. It celebrates the domestic goddess with a little "kink" thrown in.