Dress
The Silhouette Timeline traces how dress silhouettes change across the decades of the Costume Institute collection, drawn from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API (CC0) and refreshed monthly. Every record links its museum object page and carries garment family, era, season and significance labels; objects are described as cataloged, never appraised or priced.
- Object
- Dress
- Accession number
- C.I.42.147.1a–c
- Date
- early 1870s
- Makers
- —
- Medium
- linen
- Dimensions
- —
- Classification
- —
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Culture
- American
- Credit line
- Gift of Ms. Gerturde Black Butterfield, 1942
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- —
- Garment family
- daywear
- Era
- Bustle era (1870–1889)
- Season
- —
- Material family
- cotton