Dress

Art Historical Context

This delicate cotton dress, crafted 1822 and 5 by an unknown American, offers a glimpse into refined world of early th-century fashion. Housed in Metropolitan Museum of Art's Institute and generously gifted by Mrs. Ad Paulos in 195, it exemplifies the everyday of the period, when silhouettes began shifting from the high-waisted styles of the prior decade a slightly more defined waist, influenced by European trends to American tastes. Cot, the dress's primary, held immense cultural and significance in the United States this era. As a crop driving the nation's textile—especially in the Northeas...