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Designer Mrs. Arnold American
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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.
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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
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