This dress was made from authentic kimono fabric imported to America from Japan. The textile was probably originally intended for women of the samurai class.
  November 27, 2007 - May 7, 2008

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Morning robe, pink silk taffeta and embroidered crepe, c.1870, USA, Gift of Florence Anderson and Mary A. Seymour, 80.1.4, photograph by Irving Solero.