Dress, Worn by Elizabeth Parke Firestone, circa 1952

Elizabeth Parke Firestone, wife of tire magnate Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., cultivated a refined sense of fashion through years of interest in clothing design and collaboration with world-renowned couturiers. Firestone favored New York and Paris fashion centers to meet her high standard. This dress, though it does not carry his label, is possibly a Christian Dior design from his 1952 Spring Collection.