"Falernum"
Object type: Evening 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: 1948
Medium: silk, metal
Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Elinor S. Gimbel, 1984
Accession year: 2009