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Adopt an object to honor a birthday or anniversary, or to remember a loved one.

Support the FIDM Museum by underwriting the cost of a specific object. Combine resources with friends or colleagues to make a joint acquisition. Each adopted item will have a unique credit line honoring your donation when it is exhibited or published. Click on the "Adopt this object" link to be directed to the FIDM Museum online donation form.

Sunshade Hat

United States, ca. 1885

Printed cotton, metal, and wood

2019.5.36

$250

Then as now, enthusiasts gathered at festivals, football matches, and race meets for sports and spectacles. This umbrella-shaped hat of striped cotton is a rare survival of an inexpensive novelty used one sunny afternoon by a Victorian woman concerned about tanning and freckles, and quickly tossed aside at the end of the day.

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Corset Busk

Europe, ca. 1815-1820

Marquetry wood

2019.5.35

$250

Corsets defined fashionable female silhouettes from the early fifteenth through to the mid-twentieth century. Prior to the 1850s, at center front of corsets were busks—wood, metal, or ivory inserts that kept torsos upright and breasts separated. This two-tone marquetry example, inset with a printed urn topped by an eternal flame, was probably worn for mourning, given the additional symbolic heart, keyhole, and cross motifs.

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Bracelets and Drawstring Bag Set

Great Britain, ca. 1815-30

Stenciled silk velvet

2019.5.73A-C

$250

Embroidery, playing musical instruments, and singing were necessary accomplishments for elegant women in the early nineteenth century; these decorative endeavors were promoted in fashion periodicals as important contributions to pleasant family life. Stenciling on silk velvet with colored inks—known as “Theorem” painting—was a popular folk art applied to wall hangings, furniture coverings, and even fashion accessories, like these unusual bracelets and matched drawstring bag.

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Handbag

Paris, France, ca. 1925

Incised aluminum & Bakelite

2019.5.25

$700

Made of incised aluminum applied with thin layers of black Bakelite, this handbag combines industrial materials and geometry that echo the popular aesthetics of 1920s architecture: the pattern appears as a window-scape seen at an oblique angle from curbside. Its streamlined design complemented the svelte silhouette of the Jazz Age flapper who packed only essentials: a cigarette case and lipstick.

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Man’s Shirt

Golden State Shirt Works

California, ca. 1975

Photo printed polyester knit

2019.5.46

$150

Seven composite photos of helmet-clad dirt-bike riders popping wheelies and competing over mountainous terrain energize this man’s shirt. The dynamic pattern creates bursts of orange and brown—the era’s popular color palette—on the easy-care polyester knit that did not wrinkle, no matter the fast-paced action.

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Day Hat

Stuart Kent Harper

New York City, 1940s

Wool felt & leather

2019.5.21

$600

The over-scaled orchid that tops this day hat is a technical masterpiece; each colored piece of wool felt is handstitched to its neighbor, and then stretched or goffered (a texturing technique employing a hot iron) to create the undulating petals and leaves. Little is known about the talented maker—Stuart Kent Harper—who opened a boutique in New York City in 1937 and worked through the 1940s.

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