Jacket

Best & Co.

1936 · silk · Costume Institute

This infant's jacket is exquisitely constructed with dressmaking details including pleating, hemstitching, binding, drop lining and detailed rendering of the rabbits. The manufacturer and retailer, Best & Co. was renowned for fine luxury merchandise and Liliputian Bazaar was at the apex of childrenswear venues in New York. The charming logo of a human hand holding small figures refers to the Lilliputians in "Gulliver's Travels."

Artist

Best & Co.

Date

1936

Medium

silk

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Charles M. Krekel, 1957