Dress — Accession 1979.228.2

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Method

Methodology

Object

Dress

Accession number

1979.228.2

Date

ca. 1957

Makers

• Rudi Gernreich

Medium

silk

Dimensions

—

Classification

—

Department

Costume Institute

Culture

American

Credit line

Gift of Eleanor Lambert Berkson, 1979

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

House

—

Garment family

daywear

Era

New Look decade (1947–1957)

Season

—

Material family

• silk