Coat

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cotton striped in blue and white has become a convention of summer menswear and womenswear, most often in seersucker. The tradition goes back at least to the eighteenth century.

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art