Cocktail dress
Object type: Cocktail dress
Department: Costume Institute
Culture: American
Artist: Claire McCardell
Artist bio: American, 1905–1958
Artist role: Designer
Artist nationality: American
Date: 1943
Medium: Silk
Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Claire McCardell, 1956
Accession year: 2009