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 coat | — | 01/01/1935 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| "Dry Goods Economist" | — | 01/01/1935 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening coat | — | Unavailable | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1935 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1935 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening ensemble | — | 01/01/1935 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1937 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| "Paul Klee" | — | 01/01/1937 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening ensemble | — | 01/01/1940 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Ensemble | — | 01/01/1940 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Coat | — | 01/01/1940 | daywear | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dress | Fortuny | 01/01/1934 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Lanvin | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |
| Dinner dress | Lanvin | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | spring/summer |
| Evening dress | Vionnet | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |
| Evening dress | Grès | 01/01/1938 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dinner dress | Schiaparelli | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dinner dress | Grès | 01/01/1939 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Chanel | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Chanel | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Schiaparelli | 01/01/1939 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dinner dress | Lanvin | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening ensemble | Vionnet | 01/01/1936 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Vionnet | 01/01/1936 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening coat | Vionnet | 01/01/1936 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening coat | Vionnet | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening ensemble | — | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | spring/summer |
| "Emperial Crown" (jacket); "Tonight or Never" (dress) | — | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | spring/summer |
| Evening ensemble | — | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |
| "Queen Anne" | — | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | spring/summer |
| "Santiago, Chile" | — | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |
| Coat | — | Unavailable | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1935 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Coat | — | 01/01/1934 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Suit | — | 01/01/1936 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Ensemble | — | 01/01/1937 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| "Budapest" | — | 01/01/1934 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1937 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening ensemble | Chanel | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Mainbocher | 01/01/1938 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| "Phèdre" | Lanvin | 01/01/1933 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |
| Ensemble | Chanel | 01/01/1935 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening ensemble | Schiaparelli | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Schiaparelli | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dinner dress | Schiaparelli | 01/01/1938 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dress | Mainbocher | 01/01/1935 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Mainbocher | 01/01/1938 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Lanvin | 01/01/1935 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |