Evening gloves

Unknown

1900–1910 · silk · Costume Institute

The openwork knit pattern adds an extra decorative dimension to the wearer's arms. The combination of the silk knit and the patterned knit is not unlike the way silk stockings covered and decorated the legs.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1900–1910

Medium

silk

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. Clarence l. Fabre, 1953