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Cocktail Dres

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
58 12 3 * * UTC
Coverage
03/02/2020–09/03/2026
Method
Methodology
Object
Cocktail Dres
Accession number
2009.300.8544
Date
ca. 1954
Makers
  • Charles James
Medium
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
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
House
—
Garment family
evening
Era
New Look decade (1947–1957)
Season
—
Material family
  • silk