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, late 1910s-early 1920s
Gray silk georgette embroidered with white seed beads
Kent State University Museum
The Helen O. Borowitz Collection 1993.81.10

center:
Evening dress, mid-1920s
Nile green silk velvet voided with chiffon in an abstract floral pattern
Kent State University Museum
The Helen O. Borowitz Collection 1996.60.5

Shawl, ca. 1915-20
Ivory china silk, embroidered with flowers in pink,
ivory, green and gray silk floss; tied ivory silk fringe
The Helen O. Borowitz Collection L1997.13.25

right:
Evening dress, early 1920s
Gray silk chiffon, embroidered with green, dark green, gray, blue, pink and clear seed beads and pearls
Kent State University Museum
The Helen O. Borowitz Collection 1996.60.9