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Evening dress

Design House Callot Soeurs French
1926
Not on view
In a sense, the work of Callot Soeurs in the 1920s deflated the nineteenth-century silhouette, while distilling the sumptuous materials of dress. The tubular modernism of the Callot Soeurs is a contrast of structural reduction and ornamental play, with motifs similar to those seen in the Chinese export shawls popular in the 1920s.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Evening dress
  • Design House: Callot Soeurs (French, active 1895–1937)
  • Date: 1926
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: silk
  • Credit Line: Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, 1944
  • Object Number: C.I.44.64.14a, b
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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