Fashion Nerds

The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. John Morley Goodwillie, 1978. Object record

Dress

1969–70

Materials

wool, hemp, metal

House / label

Hardy Amies

Collection

1969–70

Archive reference

1978.581.10

Behind the design

Amies's 1969–70 dress places small repeated motifs above and below an emphatic belt. Long sleeves and a relatively simple outline let the change in pattern dominate. The Met records wool, hemp and metal, retaining an unusually specific material combination for this garment at the boundary of two decades.

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