Medium: White printed cotton

Date: c.1956

Country: USA

Credit: Museum purchase

This dress was likely worn to show support for incumbent president Dwight Eisenhower during his 1956 re-election campaign. A New York Times article detailed the variety of campaign fashions—from raincoats to jewelry to stockings— available to “the well-dressed Republican” that year, most of them bearing Eisenhower’s nickname, “Ike.”

Object Number: 2009.7.1