Dinner dress

House of Worth

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Moss roses are distinctive for the mossy growth on their calyx lobes, hips, and flower stalks. In this dress, they are shown only as buds, the splendid anticipation of full-blown beauty. Sir Walter Scott in Lady of the Lake (1810), wrote, "the rose is fairest when 'tis budding new."

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art