Cavallo, Adolph S, Fashion Plate: An Opening Exhibition for the New Costume Institute (PDF), in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 30, n. 1, ottobre 1971, p. 5, DOI:10.2307/3258574. URL consultato il 23 maggio 2014.
«To salute the fashion industry of New York, whose tireless efforts and financial contributions were instrumental in making the new Costume Institute a reality, the Museum will present Fashion Plate in the Costume Institute in the fall of 1971...Fashion Plate will be the first of these gallery installations – the inaugural exhibition.»