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Dinner 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
Dinner dress
Accession number
1984.587.6
Date
ca. 1938
Makers
  • Elsa Schiaparelli
Medium
wool, porcelain, metal
Dimensions
—
Classification
—
Department
Costume Institute
Culture
French
Credit line
Gift of Miriam Whitney Coletti, 1984
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
House
Schiaparelli
Garment family
evening
Era
Bias-cut thirties (1930s)
Season
—
Material family
  • wool
  • metal_stone