Man's robe
1935
Multicolor patchwork and black moiré rayon
Gift of Jack Peterkin
Object number90.111.4
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.
DescriptionMan's dressing gown in multicolor crazy quilt patchwork, with band collar, cuff bands, and borders in black moiréExhibitions