Silhouette Timeline
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 | House | Date | Garment family | Era | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1944 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | spring/summer |
| Dinner dress | — | 01/01/1944 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | spring/summer |
| "Walls of Troy" | — | 01/01/1944 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | spring/summer |
| Ensemble | — | 01/01/1944 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | — | Unavailable | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1944 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1944 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| "Shades of Picasso" | — | Unavailable | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1949 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Dinner dress | Mainbocher | 01/01/1945 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Suit | Mainbocher | 01/01/1943 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | Mainbocher | 01/01/1943 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | Mainbocher | 01/01/1948 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Coat | Paquin | 01/01/1943 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | Jean Dessès | 01/01/1948 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| "Clytemnestra" | — | Unavailable | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | fall/winter |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1945 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Coat | — | 01/01/1943 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1943 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| "The Tweed Toga" | — | 01/01/1943 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening coat | — | 01/01/1943 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1944 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| "Warrior's Lady" | — | 01/01/1943 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1945 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dinner dress | — | 01/01/1945 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Cocktail dress | — | 01/01/1943 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Suit | — | 01/01/1945 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1945 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening ensemble | — | 01/01/1945 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| "Pop-over" | — | 01/01/1942 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1942 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| "Ionica" | — | 01/01/1942 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | spring/summer |
| Ensemble | — | Unavailable | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Ensemble | — | Unavailable | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Ensemble | — | 01/01/1942 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dinner dress | — | 01/01/1942 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dinner dress | — | 01/01/1942 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dinner dress | — | 01/01/1942 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dinner dress | — | 01/01/1942 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dinner dress | — | 01/01/1942 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1942 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dinner dress | — | 01/01/1942 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Ensemble | — | 01/01/1942 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1944 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1942 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dinner dress | — | 01/01/1944 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1944 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1944 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Suit | — | 01/01/1947 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1944 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |