Dress

Bon Marché

1902–4 · wool, velvet · Costume Institute

Dashing and more than mildly ostentatious, an embellished plush dress provides warmth in accompaniment to Belle Epoque flamboyance. As the wool plush is itself a hyperbole of velvet and wool, relishing the extended pile and tactile effect, it lends itself to such jaunty and garish stylization.

Artist

Bon Marché

Date

1902–4

Medium

wool, velvet

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979