Evening dress — Accession 1975.246.8a, b

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Method

Methodology

Object

Evening dress

Accession number

1975.246.8a, b

Date

1952

Makers

• Charles James

Medium

silk

Dimensions

—

Classification

—

Department

Costume Institute

Culture

American

Credit line

Gift of Eleanor Searle Whitney McCollum, 1975

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

House

—

Garment family

evening

Era

New Look decade (1947–1957)

Season

—

Material family

• silk