"Anything for a Quiet Life"; "Beauty is the Soul of"
Object type: Cocktail dress
Department: Costume Institute
Culture: American
Artist: Elizabeth Hawes
Artist bio: American, Ridgewood, New Jersey 1903–1971 New York
Artist role: Designer
Artist nationality: American
Date: 1949
Medium: Silk
Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Diana S. Field, 1963
Accession year: 2009