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Skirt, Evening Skirt from the Skirtings Collection

This is a Skirt. It was designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes and Bonnie Cashin.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

It is dated 1957. Its medium is handwoven wool and synthetic. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


Liebes and fashion designer Bonnie Cashin had a close and synergistic relationship: both were lifestyle-driven designers committed to beautiful and functional clothes for active women. Among their many collaborations was Skirtings Inc., a line of luxe hostess skirts with elegantly casual silhouettes designed to showcase Liebes’s handwoven textures.

It is credited Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Philip Sills, 1981.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

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