20 April - 2 November 2008 - Abegg-Shiftung (Suisse)The exhibition presents important historic costumes from the collections of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, which were entrusted to the Abegg-Stiftung for conservation. Altogether twenty-seven garments reveal the high art of tailoring, elaborate decorations and fashionable thrills. Among the highlights are a sixteenth-century princely costume in several parts and a unique collection of seventeenth-century bourgeois upper garments.
ABEGG-STIFTUNG
Werner Abegg-Strasse 67
CH-3132 Riggisberg
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