Evening dress

Unknown

ca. 1918 · silk · Costume Institute

The lines of this evening dress represent the transitional shape found during the teens to the early 1920s. Executed in an appealing shade of blue, its shorter length and tubular shape presage the silhouette to come. While many examples of 1920s dresses are extant, dresses from this era are more difficult to find.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1918

Medium

silk

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Robert G. Olmsted and Constable MacCracken, 1969