Dress
Alice M. Dunstan
1909–11 · silk, metal · Costume Institute
Mrs. Dunstan was a well-known New York dressmaker. This high-style dress is a particularly good example of her work and exhibits some of the typical techniques used in that period, such as the bolero-and-vestee configuration of bodice and over-the-shoulder panels.
- Artist
- Alice M. Dunstan
- Date
- 1909–11
- Medium
- silk, metal
- 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
