Dressing gown

Unknown

1885–90 · wool · Costume Institute

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.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1885–90

Medium

wool

Culture

probably European

Department

Costume Institute

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