Evening cape

James McCreery & Company

ca. 1895 · silk, jet · Costume Institute

This style of round cape was de rigueur in the mid-1890s. The elaborate large-scale embroidery and delicate silk ruching amidst the alluring changeante velvet displays the rich opulence of the fashions of the period.

Artist

James McCreery & Company

Date

ca. 1895

Medium

silk, jet

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Aldace F. Walker in memory of her son, Roberts Walker, 1943