Sweater

late 17th century

Not on view

The rare knitted silks of the seventeenth have never been fully explained, but were probably informal wear. Today they could be purposeful as skiwear or underwear, a light sweater, or a chic bodice. Decorated to be seen, these knits are not represented in painting of the period, yet their role was clearly as a comfortable year-round clothing more consequential than any season's novelty.

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Exhibition History

Title: Sweater
Date: late 17th century
Culture: European
Medium: silk
Credit Line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1914
Object Number: 14.134.18
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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