Day dress jacket
Category
Costume
Date
1920
Materials
Silk, Silk crepe de chine
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Killerton, Devon
NT 1363360.2
Summary
Part of a day dress, jacket and belt of cream silk crepe de chine with strip insertions of pale apple-green silk. Jacket; matching cardigan style-collar less V neck, single imitation pearl button fastening, long sleeves with (later?) press stud fastening to cuffs; green strip insertion to shoulder line and in serpentine line around shoulder yoke, down fronts and round hem, also edging cuffs. 1920 (circa)
Provenance
worn by donor's mother possibly made by lady's maid.
Exhibition history
Unflappable - Fashioning the 1920s, Killerton, 2025