Evening dress

Design House Callot Soeurs French

1922

Not on view

Twentieth-century historicism is, by necessity, very cognizant. To wit, Vogue reported on December 1, 1922: "The more ardently one follows the new mode, the farther one slips into the past. One obeys the latest dictates from Paris, and, behold, one resembles the heroine of Jane Austen's day, the later 'eighties, or even the Orient in its efflorescence." This skirt with panniers is an unmistakable eighteenth-century revival. It may have been a fancy-dress commission, as it is somewhat unusual within the oeuvre of the Callot Soeurs.

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Exhibition History

Title: Evening dress
Design House: Callot Soeurs (French, active 1895–1937)
Date: 1922
Culture: French
Medium: silk, whalebone, steel
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Lovett, 1951
Object Number: C.I.51.70.18a–d
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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