"Balloon"
Object type: Opera coat
Department: Costume Institute
Culture: American
Artist: Charles James
Artist bio: American, born Great Britain, 1906–1978
Artist role: Designer
Artist nationality: American
Date: 1956
Medium: silk
Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. John de Menil, 1957
Accession year: 2009