Dinner dress
Uncannily like the dresses in the wonderfully presumptuous portraits of John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins of the same time, this 1870s evening dress extracts the full glitz and glamour of eighteenth-century fashion for a new epoch. Ornament crowds out other ornament; the configuration of the open robe is renewed; its silhouette is bold and begins to connect the eighteenth century with its Belle Époque revival.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dinner dress
- Designer: Mon. Vignon (French)
- Date: 1875–78
- Culture: French
- Medium: silk, glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Mary Pierrepont Beckwith, 1969
- Object Number: C.I.69.14.12a, b
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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