Dressing gown

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Although the fabric used to make this robe appears to be a blanket, it is an expensive, high-styled garment which belonged to a fashionable woman and was undoubtedly made in a custom dressmaking or couture house. The evidence is in the time, skill and amount of extra fabric it would have required to cut the garment so that the stripe was precisely placed at the sleeve ends and hem and matched at the seams.

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