Dress

M. A. Connelly

1882–86 · silk · Costume Institute

By the 1880s, an American dress such as this one gave obvious clues of eighteenth-century revival: the polonaise at the back and lace garnissements. Antithetically, Victorian America did not wholly yield to the rococo, and a dour brown velvet and high neckline bespeak a much more reserved and bourgeois culture. The dressmaker's label is "M. A. Connelly, 7 East 16th Street, New York."

Artist

M. A. Connelly

Date

1882–86

Medium

silk

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb, 1939