Ensemble
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
- Ensemble
- Accession number
- 2019.293a–c
- Date
- ca. 1950
- Makers
- House of Balmain
- Pierre Balmain
- Medium
- wool, silk
- Dimensions
- —
- Classification
- —
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Culture
- French
- Credit line
- Gift of Janet Mindes, in memory of Hazel Scott, and with thanks to Beryl G. S. Powell, 2019
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- Balmain
- Garment family
- daywear
- Era
- New Look decade (1947–1957)
- Season
- —
- Material family
- silk
- wool