From May 1^st until August 7^th, the Brooklyn Museum has been presenting the exhibition American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection.  The exhibit is a celebration of the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, which is being combined with the costume collection of the Metropolitan Museum, which is holding its own counterpart exhibition: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity (May 5^th until August 15^th).  The two museums each have highlighted their respective shows in different ways on the web.  The Brooklyn Museum allows you to create looks using the various pieces from the exhibit on their website, and has some examples of the type of looks one can create.  The Metropolitan Museum posted a flickr album of photos from behind the scenes of their exhibition.  There you can see how the show was installed, a process that included hanging, painting, and placing.

To see more of the pieces from the show, check out the cataloguewhich accompanies both of the exhibitions.