Wedding cravat
1875
Medium
Silk
Classification
Wedding cravat
Culture
American
Department
Costume Institute
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James McF. Baker, 1948
Accession Number
2009.300.6577
Art Historical Context
Step into the refined world of 19th-century American fashion with the *Wedding Cravat*, a exquisite silk necktie crafted by the firm Keys & Lockwood in 5. This delicate accessory, preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, the elegance of Victorian-era menswear. Cravats like this were starched and tied into precise knots, serving as a focal point of a gentleman's formal ensemble—especially for a bridegroom on his wedding day. Made from luxurious silk, the cravat highlights the material's prestige in Gilded Age America, where such fine textiles were imported or domestical...