Evening dress

Unknown

ca. 1926 · silk · Costume Institute

This evening dress is an excellent example of the period. The 1920s was the era of the flapper and her nights were spent on the town, dancing and sipping cocktails. This dress has a more refined and interesting appearance because of the varying hues of pink in the surface decoration, which shows certain levels of quality in its workmanship. Having the tabard open at the sides is an interesting detail in that it shows off the decoration of the garment underneath, yet it is attached at the sides to control the movement of the floating panels underneath. To complete the dress, the scallops of the tabard mirror the petals of the underdress.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1926

Medium

silk

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous gift, 1964