Dress

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Incorporating the high-style elements and silhouette, this dress is a 'tour de force' of elaborate dressmaking of the 1880s. It was common for children's clothing to have hints of the stylish bustle of the 1880s without the full-blown aspect of the silhouette.

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