Evening vest

Madame Marie Gerber|Callot Soeurs

ca. 1910 · silk, linen, metal · Costume Institute

While Rita Lydig had a many garments made from pieced antique laces, this one extends the concept further to include the textile, a rare 17th century brocade, very possibly Chinese, which is decorated with both 17th-century and contemporaneous laces.

Artist

Madame Marie Gerber|Callot Soeurs

Date

ca. 1910

Medium

silk, linen, metal

Culture

probably French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mercedes de Acosta, 1954