Cleopatra got decked out in a rug, and Scarlett O'Hara, fresh out of frills, went to town in Tara's velvet draperies. Contemporary women can now be almost as enterprising. They can pick from Designer Jenny Bell Whyte's new collection of "Museum Pieces," which gives proof that some of the best fashion around has for years been underfoot, on walls and over windows.
Not just any walls and windows, of course. Jenny Bell's long skirts, coats and dresses are made from venerable fabrics. Most of them—18th century Russian Orthodox deacons' vestments, Oriental silk wall hangings, early American quilts—were rescued from museum basements...
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