The 2022 Met Gala will ask its attendees to embody the grandeur of Gilded Age New York.
The 2022 Met Gala will ask its attendees to embody the grandeur – and perhaps the dichotomy – of Gilded Age New York. The period, which stretched from 1870 to 1890 , was one of unprecedented prosperity, cultural change, and industrialisation, when both skyscrapers and fortunes seemingly arose overnight.
ruled polite society until the new-money Vanderbilts forced themselves in. Thomas Edison’s light bulb, patented in 1882, alit firstbuilding and then the entire city. Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 telephone made communication instant – and created a demand for operators to man the lines, leading one of the first mass waves of women into the workplace. Wages skyrocketed past those in Europe .
For the upper echelon, fashion during that period was one of excess. Thanks to recent innovations of electric and steam-powered looms, fabric became faster and cheaper to produce. As a result, women’s dresses often featured a combination of many textiles, like satin, silk, velvet, and fringe, all adorned with over-the-top textures like lace, bows, frills, and ruffles. Courtesy of the Conde Nast Archives.
Colours were rich and deep jewel tones. Lighter colours were only worn only at home, as they were impractical while walking in the streets of New York. Hats were a necessity when going out and often were adorned with feathers. Corsets were commonplace, and in the 1870s to late 1880s, women embraced bustles to elongate their backsides – in fact,was that a bustle should be big enough to host an entire tea service.
A dinner dress by Mme. Grapanache, dated from 1884–86. The Gilded Age design is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.Gilded Age fashion was formal. As leisure activities like bicycling and tennis became popular among the well-heeled set, sportswear, for the first time, became an integral part of one’s wardrobe.
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