Evening dress — Accession 2009.300.2928

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Method

Methodology

Object

Evening dress

Accession number

2009.300.2928

Date

1942

Makers

• Charles James

Medium

silk ige tulle

Dimensions

—

Classification

—

Department

Costume Institute

Culture

American

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Erik Lee Preminger in memory of his mother, Gypsy Rose Lee, 1993

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

House

—

Garment family

evening

Era

Wartime & utility (1940–1946)

Season

—

Material family

• silk