NEW YORK, NY.- The spring 2010 exhibition organized
by
The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is
American Woman:
Fashioning a National Identity, the first drawn from the newly
established
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. The exhibition, on
view
from May 5 through August 15, 2010, explores developing
perceptions of the
modern American woman from the 1890s to the 1940s, and how they
have
affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing
on
archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition
reveals
how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored
her
social, political, and sartorial emancipation.