Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202.
Website: www.cincinnatiartmuseum.com
Founded in 1880s, this museum showcases American art, furniture and clothing.
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, 1100 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan 48236. Website: www.fordhouse.org
Built in the late 1920s for the president and automotive designer of Ford Motor Company and his wife, who were both prominent American philanthropists, it houses a diverse collection of furniture, art, antiques and textiles.
The Henry Ford Museum, 20900 Oakwood Boulevard, Dearborn, Michigan 48124-4088. Website: www.thehenryford.org
Museum exhibits based on authentic objects, stories and lives from America’s traditions of ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation from the early twentieth century; displays include photography, clothing, jewelry, automobiles and artifacts.
This evening coat is made from gold metallic brocade in a floral motif with multicolored rectangles. It is trimmed in white fox fur, and closed with a single button and lined with pink silk satin. The label reads “Hattie Moss, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”
Miss Suzette Dewey, snapped beside her roadster in December 1927.
Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens, 4155 Linnean Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008. Website: www.hillwoodmuseum.org
Marjorie Merriweather Post’s home, which contains decorative arts including her clothing.
Kent State University Museum, 515 Hilltop Drive, Kent, Ohio 4424-0001. Website: www.kent.edu/museum/ Within the collection of twentieth-century fashion, most major American and European designers are represented.
Meadow Brook Hall (Matilda Dodge Wilson Estate), 480 South Adams Road, Rochester, Michigan 48309-4401. www.meadowbrookhall.org
One of the greatest American estate homes, built 1926–29 by Matilda Dodge (widow of auto pioneer John Dodge), and her husband Alfred Wilson. Showcases original art, furnishings, jewelry, and costumes and textiles.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue, NewYork 10028.
Website: www.metmuseum.org
Houses extensive American clothing collection and the Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library.
Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 N Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004.
Website www.phxart.org
The collection includes fashion from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century and major American and European designers including Coco Chanel.
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 2250 Reynolda Road, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27106. Website: www.reynoldahouse.org
Costumes on display include clothing from the Reynolda family from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This evening dress of georgette illustrates three fashion notes—the bolero, soft girdle snugly held with a decorative buckle and bias flying panels in the skirt.
Texas Fashion Collection, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
Website: www.tfc.unt.edu
Dedicated to the preservation and documentation of historical fashion, the collection is a resource for students, researchers and the general public.
