Evening dress

Charles Klein

ca. 1910 · cotton, silk · Costume Institute

Dresses with Irish crochet lace were very popular during the Belle Époque. This example of a full-length evening garment fashioned from that lace is given a level of three-dimensionality from the use of lace and pendant balls. They add surface interest, as does the arrangement of the ball fringe over the peach velvet hem band.

Artist

Charles Klein

Date

ca. 1910

Medium

cotton, silk

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, 1961