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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evening dress | Grès | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening ensemble | Schiaparelli | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Worth | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Mainbocher | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Mainbocher | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dress | Lanvin | 01/01/1937 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Ensemble | Lanvin | Unavailable | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Lanvin | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Nina Ricci | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | spring/summer |
| Dinner dress | Vionnet | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Vionnet | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Vionnet | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Vionnet | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Vionnet | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening ensemble | Jacques Fath | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| "Midsummer Madness" | Molyneux | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Suit | Molyneux | Unavailable | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| "It Is My Own Invention" | — | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |
| "The Duchess - The Duchess!" | — | Unavailable | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |
| "Curiouser and Curiouser" | — | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |
| "Mad Tea Party" | — | Unavailable | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |
| Suit | — | 01/01/1937 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | spring/summer |
| Evening dress | — | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| "Alimony"; "Misadventure" | — | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | — | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1940 | evening | Wartime & utility (1940–1946) | — |
| Dinner dress | — | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| "Beautiful Soup" | — | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| "Final Appeal" | — | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | — | 01/01/1937 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening ensemble | Chanel | 01/01/1936 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Suit | Patou | 01/01/1937 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening coat | Schiaparelli | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | winter |
| Evening dress | Schiaparelli | 01/01/1936 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall |
| Cocktail dress | Schiaparelli | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | winter |
| "Carnival Dress" | Vionnet | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |
| Evening dress | Grès | 01/01/1938 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Schiaparelli | 01/01/1938 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening coat | Schiaparelli | 01/01/1938 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dress | Chanel | 01/01/1938 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dress | Chanel | 01/01/1938 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Suit | Chanel | 01/01/1936 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening ensemble | Schiaparelli | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Suit | Schiaparelli | Unavailable | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Cocktail dress | Vionnet | 01/01/1936 | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Evening dress | Vionnet | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dress | Fortuny | 01/01/1936 | daywear | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| Dinner dress | Paquin | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | — |
| "Diamond Horseshoe" | — | Unavailable | evening | Bias-cut thirties (1930s) | fall/winter |