Cocktail dress — Accession 2009.300.7454

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Method

Methodology

Object

Cocktail dress

Accession number

2009.300.7454

Date

1949

Makers

• Bonnie Cashin

Medium

Cotton, silk

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 Bonnie Cashin, 1966

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

House

—

Garment family

evening

Era

New Look decade (1947–1957)

Season

—

Material family

• silk
• cotton