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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
2009.300.8124
Date
spring/summer 1976
Makers
  • Vera Maxwell
Medium
Synthetic
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 Vera Maxwell, 1985
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
House
—
Garment family
evening
Era
Seventies
Season
spring/summer
Material family
  • synthetic