Lending

An illustrated guide to one hundred of the gowns from the permanent collection of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dating from the eighteenth century to the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Oh how I love this book. I found it at Barnes and Noble and studied some of the images, and knew I simply had to purchase it. As the foreward by Koda states, these were 100 dresses chosen by the staff who picked their favorites from the vast collection at the Metropolitan Art Museum Costume Institute.

This was a visual feast and banquet of exquisite materials, patterns and styles. ( )