Abstract
Before that, the Museum's own Department of Renaissance and Modern Art had been collecting costume material in the Textile Study Room. The two collections existed side by side. Then in 1960 the Costume Institute became a regular department of the Museum, and plans were made to house it in new, more spacious quarters and to turn over to the Costume Institute the apparel kept in the Textile Study Room. The new installation and the transfer of holdings were planned for 1970 when the Museum would celebrate its Centennial year. Those plans have now come to fruition. What was already a great collection in the Costume Institute has now been graced by the addition of a second distinguished costume collection whose chief ornament is a masterpiece of the tailor's art. It is the late seventeenth-century English gown (Figures 1-3) that serves as the subject of this essay.I
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