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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.

Records
5,000
Last changed
Update schedule
58 12 3 * * UTC
Coverage
03/02/2020–09/03/2026
Method
Methodology
Object
Dress
Accession number
2007.18
Date
1937–38
Makers
  • Elsa Schiaparelli
Medium
silk, metallic thread
Dimensions
—
Classification
—
Department
Costume Institute
Culture
French
Credit line
Isabel Shults Fund, 2007
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
House
Schiaparelli
Garment family
daywear
Era
Bias-cut thirties (1930s)
Season
—
Material family
  • silk
  • metal_stone