Dinner dress

Mrs. Arnold

1894–96 · silk · Costume Institute

This is unusually simple in design yet elegant in its unbroken black satin. The dramatic shape is the quintessential style of the 1890s. This was made by a little known Brooklyn dressmaker.

Artist

Mrs. Arnold

Date

1894–96

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 Sally Ingalls, 1932