Dressing gown
Although the fabric used to make this robe appears to be a blanket, it is an expensive, high-styled garment which belonged to a fashionable woman and was undoubtedly made in a custom dressmaking or couture house. The evidence is in the time, skill and amount of extra fabric it would have required to cut the garment so that the stripe was precisely placed at the sleeve ends and hem and matched at the seams.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dressing gown
- Date: 1885–90
- Culture: probably European
- Medium: wool
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Frederick H. Prince, Jr., 1967
- Object Number: 2009.300.429
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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Charles Frederick Worth
ca. 1872
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ca. 1870
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1861–65
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1880–90
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1804–5
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