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.
