"Pear Shape"
Object type: Cocktail Dress
Department: Costume Institute
Culture: American
Artist: Charles James
Artist bio: American, born Great Britain, 1906–1978
Artist role: Designer
Artist nationality: American
Date: ca. 1954
Medium: wool, silk
Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Erik Lee Preminger in memory of his mother, Gypsy Rose Lee, 1993
Accession year: 2009