Evening cloak
The chinoiserie print covered in the vermiculate gold chainstitch alongside the contrasting embroidered net trim encompasses the wearer in lavish exoticism. It was fashionable in the period to seek such exoticism in home furnishings as well as fashion. The design vocabulary of the world was often reinterpreted in embroidery styles throughout the period.
Artwork Details
- Title: Evening cloak
- Date: 1885–89
- Culture: French
- Medium: silk, metal
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. John Roebling, 1970
- Object Number: 2009.300.2598
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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