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Jacket

Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2020.4.23.13.CW.TO.C1945.US
Authors:
House of Litty Bros. (American, 1918 - n/a)
Polly Parker (American, active 1940s)
Description
Blue wool gabardine elongated jacket with wide lapels and fastening with single covered button embellished with blue bead core (the second spare one is sewn inside). The jacket fitted with princess seams and two fish darts on each side, has padded shoulders, set-in sleeves with raised caps and faux hip pockets with flag-shaped flaps, which abundantly embroidered with blue beads; lined with dark blue crepe de chine.
Materials
Wool
Beads
Origin
circa 1945 New York, United States
Related object
Cocktail gown
Exhibition History
• 2019.07.24–2020.03.03. ‘The Fashion during the War. 1938–1945. From Alexandre Vassiliev foundation collection.’ Museum ‘Liepaja occupation regimes’, Liepaja, Latvia.