Jacket
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silk, cotton, velvet, foil, braid and gold thread.
Measurements
48.3 cm (Length); 43 cm (Length); 63.5 cm (Circumference)
Place of origin
Yugoslavia
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349228
Summary
Jacket from Yugoslavia made from green velvet with pink silk tabby at the wrist openings. It is lined with pink silk tabby fronts and back and yellow cotton tabby sleeve linings. It is trimmed with gold lace, Russian braid, gold silk cored thread, sequins and pink foil. The gold lace is on all the eges and on the side back seams. There is Russian braid and sequins inside the gold lace in a looped and foliage design. There is metal thread in a stylised floral design with gold sequins and foil as the centre of some of the flowers on the fronts, shoulders, arms and back. Bourgeoise. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade