Dinner dress

Designer Mrs. Arnold American
1894–96
Not on view
This is unusually simple in design yet elegant in its unbroken black satin. The dramatic shape is the quintessential style of the 1890s. This was made by a little known Brooklyn dressmaker.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dinner dress
  • Designer: Mrs. Arnold (American)
  • Date: 1894–96
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: silk
  • Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Sally Ingalls, 1932
  • Object Number: 2009.300.643a, b
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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