The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Evening dress

Date:: 1893
Culture:: American
Medium:: silk, wool, rhinestones, metal
Dimensions:: Length at CB (a): 17 in. (43.2 cm) Length at CB (c): 41 1/2 in. (105.4 cm)
Credit Line:: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Edwin A. Neugass, 1959
Accession Number:: 2009.300.838a–c

This artwork is not on display

Description

This is high style dress of the period when sleeves were getting larger with each season. The unique embroidery is distinctive and representative of the overt extravagance applied in this period.
See also
What
Metal (59,364)

Costume (41,678)

Silk (32,922)

Glass (16,037)

Wool (9,527)

Dresses (5,294)

Evening dresses (1,670)

Glass paste (534)

Rhinestone (367)
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.