Exhibition

Posing for Paper Dolls: Fashions from 1750 to 1900
Higbee Gallery, June 28, 2000- May 27, 2001
Anne Bissonnette, Curator
  

 
Illustration by Norma Lu Meehan


Man's Smoking Costume

England, late 1840s
Cotton gabardine lounging robe and trousers printed with paisley motifs. This ensemble shows the long-standing Turkish influence on men's interior gowns that peaked during the 18th century and continued into the 19th.
Silverman/Rodgers Collection KSUM 1983.1.58ab

 

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