Dress

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

As the torso seemed to drop low in the 1840s, its attentuation was often exacerbated by pleats radiating from the pointed waist.

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