Cocktail 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
- Cocktail dress
- Accession number
- 2009.300.364a–c
- Date
- spring/summer 1956
- Makers
- Christian Dior
- House of Dior
- Medium
- silk, nylon
- Dimensions
- —
- Classification
- —
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Culture
- French
- Credit line
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Henry Rogers Benjamin, 1965
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- Dior
- Garment family
- evening
- Era
- New Look decade (1947–1957)
- Season
- spring/summer
- Material family
- silk
- synthetic