See more objects with the tag pattern, floral, feminine, romanticism.

Object Timeline

  • We acquired this object.

1919

  • Work on this object began.

1920

  • Work on this object ended.

2017

2025

  • You found it!

Day Dress

This is a Day Dress.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Museum of the City of New York as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated 1919–20. Its medium is floral printed cotton, trimmed with silk velvet.

The New York owner of this dress was described as a "conventional woman with strong opinions."

It is credited Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Katherine Cortesi Armstrong, 1998, 98.76.4.

  • Textile, Juin
  • cotton.
  • Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Fund.
  • 1994-115-1
  • Textile (France)
  • silk.
  • Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund and through gift of various donors.
  • 1990-128-1

Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.

  • Corner Cabinet
  • kingwood (amaranth) veneer on mahogany, ivory inlay.
  • Lent by Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by Joseph F. McCrindle,....
  • 33.2016.1

Its dimensions are

Length (approx.): 40 in.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian’s Terms of Use page.

If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the following template:

<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=https://www-4.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1041531533/ |title=Day Dress |author=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |accessdate=11 February 2025 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>