About Time: Fashion and Duration
(Left) Timeline: Afternoon dress, ca. 1877. American. Silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Theodore Fischer Ells, 1975 (1975.227.4) (Right) Interruption: Alexander McQueen (British, 1969–2010). “Bumster” Skirt, fall/winter 1995–96, edition 2010. Courtesy of Alexander McQueen