Mourning dress

1910–12

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 099

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.

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Exhibition History

Title: Mourning dress
Designer: Charlotte Duclos (French, active ca. 1906–20)
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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