Dress
The paper dress craze was short-lived in the late 1960s. A fashionable trend, they were also made for promotional purposes and served as a sartorial representation of the throw-away ethos of the period. This example, created by prominent children's designer Joseph Love, has a particularly exuberant, cheerful and artistic pattern, which is child-like but also sophisticated.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dress
- Designer: Joseph Love, Inc. (American, founded 1921)
- Date: 1966–68
- Culture: American
- Medium: cellulose, nylon
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Joseph Love, Inc., 1968
- Object Number: 2009.300.3864
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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