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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.

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Last changed
Update schedule
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Coverage
03/02/2020–09/03/2026
Method
Methodology
Object
Cocktail dress
Accession number
2009.300.7633
Date
1960
Makers
  • Norman Norell
  • Traina-Norell
Medium
Wool, silk
Dimensions
—
Classification
—
Department
Costume Institute
Culture
American
Credit line
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lauren Bacall, 1967
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
House
—
Garment family
evening
Era
Sixties
Season
—
Material family
  • silk
  • wool