Bolero jacket
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile
Place of origin
Herzegovina
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349266
Summary
Bolero jacket from Bosnia/Herzegovina/Monenegro made from green velvet and lined with glazed cotton back and cream silk twill foreparts (replacement). It is trimmed with 2 widths of gold lace round the neck, hem, front and across the shoulders with gold sequins and Russian braid. There is only 1 width on the edge of the sleeves. It fastens with round gold coloured metal buttons with a basket weave pattern (probably replacement). It has a label 'C H O' inside a circle stamped inside. Said to match SNO.TC.555. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade