Bolero jacket
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile
Place of origin
Yugoslavia
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349244
Summary
Bolero jacket from Yugoslavia made from plum velvet lined with unbleached linen partly on the back with primrose silk fronts and side backs. It is trimmed with gold lace down the fronts, along the hem, round the neck, down the side back seams and in a diamond shape on the side front seams. There is narrower gold braid around the armholes. There is gold Russian braid in continuous shapes of flowers, leaves and curvilinear design. It fastens with filigree metallic buttons. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade, Store 2