Evening dress
Lord & Taylor, like many New York City department stores in the late-19th and early-20th century, had on-site workrooms where they could produce custom garments. This evening dress, with its notable contrast of refined cutwork lace on the bodice and net lace of the skirt, is a good example of the type of work produced by the store.
Artwork Details
- Title: Evening dress
- Department Store: Lord & Taylor (American, founded 1826)
- Date: 1900–1902
- Culture: American
- Medium: silk, linen
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Caroline A. Ward, 1959
- Object Number: 2009.300.3202a, b
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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