Ball gown
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.
- Object
- Ball gown
- Accession number
- 1983.479.1a–c
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Makers
- —
- Medium
- silk, cotton
- Dimensions
- —
- Classification
- —
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Culture
- probably American
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Frederick van Beuren Joy, in memory of Mrs. Jacob Harsen Halsted, 1983
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- —
- Garment family
- evening
- Era
- Crinoline era (1850–1869)
- Season
- —
- Material family
- silk
- cotton