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60's mini dress

Title: 60's mini dress
Description: This mini dress by Rudi Gernreich reflects the experimental and futuristic direction of late 1960s fashion. The bright pink dress features a short A-line silhouette with a dramatic vertical cutout across the torso, emphasizing the decade’s challenge to traditional ideas of modesty and femininity. Inspired by modern art and geometric abstraction, the design uses bold color, simplified form, and exposed skin to create a striking visual effect. Gernreich’s work embodied the era’s interest in liberation, innovation, and the merging of fashion with contemporary art and popular culture.; March 30, 1968; November 19, 1966
Date: 1967
Fashion Item: minidresses
Fashion style: Mod (modernist) style
designer: Rudi Gernreich (American (born Austria), Vienna 1922–1985 Los Angeles, California); Gernreich, Rudi
Materials: wool, plastic, nylon; wool (textile); plastic (material); nylon
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume Institute
Identifier: 1988.74.2a–e