Helen Igoe Black Evening Dress and a Scarf. Sleeveless pillar design, satin skirt with pointed black tail panel. Bodice of black silk net with elaborate embroidery of black sequin and iridescent beads, with bands of the beads and sequins to hem. The black chiffon continues to gathered and flounced side panels. Bodice lined in off white netting, and with off white netting to top of bodice front. Wide ribbon waisting to interior of bodice centering embroidered ribbon label, "Igoe New York San Francisco" near shield. Circa 1915. (Approximate dimensions:  20" shoulders, 51" L. to front, roughly 34 1/2" bust.  Scarf: 19" x 104".}.

Helen Igoe arrived in Seattle in 1907, where she began her career working at MacDougal and Southwick. This ambitious firm sent Igoe to Paris on buying trips in 1908 and later. By 1910, Helen Igoe had her own shop, which boasted to its clientele that they could have a Parisian couture or New York boutique experience without leaving Seattle. Igoe continued to be the city's leading fashion forward source for Parisian design as late as 1950, when she sold her shop to employee John Doyle Bishop, who renamed the shop for himself.

Overall condition is very good, with some tearing to off white chiffon insert to sides of bodice top, and to black netting. Loose threads, minor losses to sequins and beads.