Silhouette Timeline
The Silhouette Timeline traces how dress silhouettes change across the decades of the Costume Institute collection, drawn from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API (CC0) and refreshed monthly. Every record links its museum object page and carries garment family, era, season and significance labels; objects are described as cataloged, never appraised or priced.
| Object | House | Date | Garment family | Era | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Pear Shape" | — | 01/01/1955 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Evening coat | — | 01/01/1957 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Evening ensemble | — | 01/01/1957 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Coat | — | 01/01/1955 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Evening ensemble | — | 01/01/1955 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Ensemble | — | Unavailable | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1956 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Coat | — | 01/01/1956 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Evening ensemble | — | 01/01/1955 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Suit | — | 01/01/1957 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Ensemble | — | 01/01/1955 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1957 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1955 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1955 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| "Arsène Lupin" | Dior | Unavailable | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | fall/winter |
| Evening dress | Grès | Unavailable | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | fall/winter |
| Coat | Dior | 01/01/1954 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| Evening ensemble | Dior | 01/01/1954 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | fall/winter |
| "Nuit de Autrefoi" | Dior | 01/01/1954 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| "Nuit Fraiche" | Dior | 01/01/1954 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| "Nuit D'Aout" | Dior | 01/01/1954 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| "Muguet" | Dior | 01/01/1954 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| "Luxembourg" | Dior | 01/01/1954 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| "Benjamin" | Dior | 01/01/1954 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| "Nuit à Chicago" | Dior | 01/01/1954 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| "Nuit de Rêve" | Dior | 01/01/1954 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| "Compiègne" | Dior | Unavailable | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | fall/winter |
| "Priscilla" | Dior | Unavailable | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | fall/winter |
| "Chambord" | Dior | Unavailable | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | fall/winter |
| Ensemble | Chanel | 01/01/1954 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| Dinner dress | Chanel | Unavailable | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | fall/winter |
| Dress | Givenchy | 01/01/1954 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |
| "Oriane" | Balmain | Unavailable | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | fall/winter |
| Evening dress | Dior | 01/01/1956 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Cocktail dress | Dior | 01/01/1954 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Coat | Dior | 01/01/1954 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Dress | Dior | 01/01/1956 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Evening dress | Dior | 01/01/1959 | evening | Sixties | — |
| Evening ensemble | Balenciaga | Unavailable | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Coat | Balenciaga | 01/01/1954 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Dress | Balenciaga | 01/01/1954 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Suit | Chanel | 01/01/1958 | daywear | Sixties | — |
| Ensemble | Grès | 01/01/1959 | daywear | Sixties | — |
| Ensemble | Chanel | 01/01/1956 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Evening dress | Grès | 01/01/1954 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Dress | Cardin | 01/01/1959 | daywear | Sixties | — |
| Dress | Jean Dessès | 01/01/1954 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Ball gown | — | 01/01/1954 | evening | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Dress | — | 01/01/1956 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | — |
| Coat | — | 01/01/1954 | daywear | New Look decade (1947–1957) | spring/summer |