Dress

Callot Soeurs

ca. 1924 · wool, silk, metallic thread · Costume Institute

In a reference to Persia, Callot Soeurs created a kind of artistic dress of the 1920s, stark in its tubular silhouette but ornamented on the surface. Despite the presence of decoration, for which they were perhaps best known at the time, Callot Soeurs practiced a disciplined modernism. This day dress with collarless tunic employs a vestigially Ottoman angled sleeve with narrow cuffs.

Artist

Callot Soeurs

Date

ca. 1924

Medium

wool, silk, metallic thread

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Julia B. Henry, 1978