Evening dress

Unknown

1893 · silk, wool, rhinestones, metal · Costume Institute

This is high style dress of the period when sleeves were getting larger with each season. The unique embroidery is distinctive and representative of the overt extravagance applied in this period.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1893

Medium

silk, wool, rhinestones, 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 Edwin A. Neugass, 1959