It was started in the early days of the twentieth century, not as an historical or artistic collection, but for design inspiration. The costume collection at the Brooklyn Museum has an interesting history. Included was a large portion of a donation to the Brooklyn Museum by designer Elizabeth Hawes and several of her clients. Many items, presumably those of which there were better examples already in the Costume Institute, were sent to auction. The entire collection had been recataloged, photographed, and assessed. This transfer was not universally popular (but what is these days?), especially when it became known that many of the pieces never made their way from Brooklyn to the Met. The solution was to transfer the collection to the Met where the financial situation was much better. The museum had cut back on costume displays because they feared it was too damaging to the textiles. A lot of skill is necessary for preservation and conservation.
Clothing and textiles are hard and expensive to maintain. This exhibition was planned to show off the collection after it was transferred from Brooklyn to the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.īy the late 1990s, it was becoming increasingly obvious that the costume collection at the Brooklyn Museum was in trouble. This book is the companion to the exhibition of the same name which featured highlights from the Brooklyn Museum’s incredible clothing collection.
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