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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
2011.73.3a, b
Date
1990s
Makers
  • Bill Blass Ltd.
Medium
(a) cotton; (b) silk
Dimensions
—
Classification
—
Department
Costume Institute
Culture
American
Credit line
Gift of Jamee T. Gregory, 2011
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
House
—
Garment family
daywear
Era
Nineties
Season
—
Material family
  • silk
  • cotton