Kent State University Museum: What Daisy Wore

Exhibition

What Daisy Wore : Gatsby Era Costumes from the Helen O. Borowitz Collection
Higbee Gallery, August 1997 to May 1998
Anne Bissonnette, Curator

left:
Day dress and cardigan jacket, mid-1920s
Purple silk velvet voided with chiffon in an abstract floral pattern; purple silk crinkle chiffon.
The Helen O. Borowitz Collection L1997.13.17

center:
Day dress, mid-1920s, rust silk velvet.
The Helen O. Borowitz Collection L1997.13.20

right:
Day dress, late 1920s
Silk chiffon printed in orange, rust, tan, yellow, red and pink floral pattern on cream ground, part pleated; rust chiffon; ecru pleated chiffon; various machine laces.
The Helen O. Borowitz Collection L1997.13.4