The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dinner dress

Date:: 1894–96
Culture:: American
Medium:: silk
Dimensions:: Length at CB (a): 18 in. (45.7 cm) Length at CB (b): 49 in. (124.5 cm)
Credit Line:: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Sally Ingalls, 1932
Accession Number:: 2009.300.643a, b

This artwork is not on display

Description

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.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Marking: Label woven into petersham: "Mrs. Arnold/169 Clinton St./B-klyn"
See also
Who
Mrs. Arnold (1)
What
Costume (41,678)

Silk (32,922)

Dresses (5,294)
Where
North and Central America (81,404)

United States (78,109)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
In the Museum
Costume Institute (34,166)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D.