Evening cloak

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

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