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Evening 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
Evening dress
Accession number
1993.304
Date
ca. 1948
Makers
  • Mainbocher
  • Mainbocher
Medium
cotton, glass
Dimensions
—
Classification
—
Department
Costume Institute
Culture
American
Credit line
Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1993
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
House
Mainbocher
Garment family
evening
Era
New Look decade (1947–1957)
Season
—
Material family
  • cotton
  • metal_stone