Evening dress

Department Store Weeks French

1910

Not on view

Transitioning from the popular S-curve silhouette, this fashionable and eye-catching dress is more streamlined, with a slightly raised waist, introducing a more modern look. What is of most interest is the surprising combination of materials, using both polka dots and paisley patterns. Both of these prints have sustained the fashion cycle and remain familiar to our twentieth century eye.

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Title: Evening dress
Department Store: Weeks (French)
Date: 1910
Culture: French
Medium: silk, linen
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Mrs. Arthur F. Schermerhorn, 1957
Object Number: 2009.300.246a, b
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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