Object: Man's robe
Date: 1935
Medium: Multicolor patchwork and black moiré rayon
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Jack Peterkin
Object number: 90.111.4
DescriptionMan's dressing gown in multicolor crazy quilt patchwork, with band collar, cuff bands, and borders in black moiré
Label Text:This dressing gown was cut from a nineteenth-century crazy quilt— an object that already had been made from leftover scraps of fabric. The quilt may have been a dilapidated, otherwise unusable, family heirloom. Its conversion into a robe demonstrates a clever, perhaps necessary, reuse of materials during the Great Depression.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Eco-Fashion: Going Green
- Fashion Unraveled