Millicent Rogers was born in 1902 as the heiressΒ to the Standard Oil fortune. After contracting rheumatic fever as a small child, doctors gave her only a few years to live. She proved them wrong, but suffered from poor healthΒ for her entire life; enduring several heart attacks, pneumonia, and even a crippled left arm. No oneβ¦
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Miss Millicent Rogers, of Washington and New York, was one of the socially prominent passengers sailing for Europe on the S.S. Cedric. Photo by New York Daily News, January 25, 1922.
Evening jacket by Elsa Schiaparelli, summer 1937. Gift of Millicent Rogers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ensemble by Elsa Schiaparelli, summer 1940. Millicent Rogers, the original owner of this ensemble and a world traveler, could have worn this while summering at one of her many homes, perhaps her Jamaican estate "Wharf House" or one of the two Rogers family homes on Long Island. Gift of Millicent Rogers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Evening ensemble by Elsa Schiaparelli, summer 1940. Gift of Millicent Rogers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jacket by Elsa Schiaparelli, summer 1940. Gift of Millicent Rogers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Evening apron, attributed to Mainbocher, c. 1930-1939. Gift of Millicent Rogers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Dinner dress by Mainbocher, 1948. Gift of Millicent Rogers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Dressing gown by Charles James, 1946. Gift of Millicent Rogers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sweater by Elsa Schiaparelli, c. 1938. Gift of Millicent Rogers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
