Dress

M. A. Connelly

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

By the 1880s, an American dress such as this one gave obvious clues of eighteenth-century revival: the polonaise at the back and lace garnissements. Antithetically, Victorian America did not wholly yield to the rococo, and a dour brown velvet and high neckline bespeak a much more reserved and bourgeois culture. The dressmaker's label is "M. A. Connelly, 7 East 16th Street, New York."

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