Medium: Multicolor patchwork, black moiré silk

Date: 1935

Country: USA

Credit: Gift of Jack Peterkin

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.

Object Number: 90.111.4