Mourning dress
The elaborate but subtle beading on this mourning dress would have shimmered when new. The asymmetry of the charmeuse panel is indicative of the high fashion of the period. An example of extremely chic mourning attire for the evening, it features an element of subtle exposure: the beaded underpanel hidden by the charmeuse would have been revealed with the movement of the wearer.
Artwork Details
- Title: Mourning dress
- Designer: Charlotte Duclos (French)
- Date: 1910–12
- Culture: French
- Medium: silk, jet, glass
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Charles E. Rogers, 1943
- Object Number: 2009.300.1114
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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Weeks
ca. 1911
Multiple artists/makers
spring/summer 1958
House of Dior
Christian Dior
fall/winter 1949–50 haute couture
Callot Soeurs
1915–16
Edward Molyneux
1926–27
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