If you have played Eva in any production of Evita and have a photo of yourself in THE white dress, we'd love to see it. Send scans here and we'll add it to the gallery. Please include your name, theatre and city, and an approximate date.

The real dress copied by Tazeena Furth and Timothy O'Brien was a Christian Dior and had a heavily jeweled satin coat. The Evita designers had no way of knowing, in 1978, that the dress (and coat) was gold, not white. In recent years, some of Eva Perón's belongings have finally been returned to her family, and the coat was put on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York several years ago, part of a Christian Dior retrospective. It is not known whether the dress has decayed or was not returned to the family with the coat, but it was not part of the exhibit. Eva wore the dress to a gala on July 9, 1951.

The dress seems to have a satin band at the top and waist; the bodice is solidly sequined, the multi-layered tule skirt is scattered with thousands of sequins, heaviest at the waist, tapering off near the floor.

A Gallery of Evas

Jenean Chandler 1st National Co. Los Angeles 1980	Anna Marie Gutierrez National Tour Los Angeles 1986	Lisa Barnett Midland Community Theatre, Texas May 3 - 5, 2001

Kathrynne Haack Bristol Riverside Theatre Bristol, PA 2001	Bethe B. Austin Bristol Riverside Theatre Bristol, PA 2001

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