Fashion Nerds

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Object record

Dress

1927

Materials

silk

House / label

House of Chanel

Collection

1927

Archive reference

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1995.341.16

Behind the design

Silk is the documented material of this 1927 Chanel dress. Compare it with the paillette-covered evening dress to study two approaches to the decade's fashion.

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