Dress

Unknown

ca. 1890 · cotton · Costume Institute

This is a particularly beautiful infant's dress hand-sewn by a skilled person. The amount of fabric used in the skirt is out of the ordinary, but when the child wearing the dress moved, it would have been very visually effective and graceful. The shape of the sleeves and the refined piping are both testaments to the great care taken in making this dress.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1890

Medium

cotton

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 Marion Jardine, 1941