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Dress

1876–78
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The most salient feature of eighteenth-century appropriation demonstrated in this dress is its long line of embroidery at center front and descending to the hem. The floral decoration and its placement on the garment arise not from copying eighteenth-century women's fashion but from a comprehension of eighteenth-century menswear. It is as if the waistcoat's ebullient decorative impulse has been transferred to the brown wool of this almost too-dour nineteenth-century dress.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dress
  • Date: 1876–78
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: wool, silk
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Edward Freet, 1939
  • Object Number: C.I.39.68
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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