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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
2009.300.4002
Date
1950
Makers
  • Elsa Schiaparelli
  • House of Schiaparelli
Medium
Wool
Dimensions
—
Classification
—
Department
Costume Institute
Culture
French
Credit line
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2012; Gift of Dorothy Baden Stamm, 1963
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
House
Schiaparelli
Garment family
daywear
Era
New Look decade (1947–1957)
Season
—
Material family
  • wool