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Description: | quilted jacket with long sleeves; skirt with deep flounce; made of printed with palm trees, exotic flowers and birds, reminiscent of an 1850s shawl pattern, cotton printed with irregular bands of colour: cream, scarlet, cream black; between cream and scarlet bands pattern of arrowhead shaped leaves, some with ochre veins, some parti-coloured in green and black amid exotic flowers in pink, pale blue and ochre; trunks of palm-like trees crossing scarlet and cream bands with leaves in the black band; cream and black band with undulation of small flowers, arrowhead shaped leaves and falling vegetation; between black and cream bands similar undulation with larger flowers; rest with exotic plants and flowers; two exotic birds with long tail feathers on palm trunks, bird with shorter feathers on a bush, another in flight; part of pattern hatched in broken black; the whole reminiscent of an 1850s shawl pattern; black rayon/polyester satin
1. jacket: two fronts, U shaped neck, bottom with point at centre front; shaped one bust dart each; one back; quilted with grid in white cotton; all edges bound in black satin
sleeves: long, one main piece, pleated to sleeve head and to deep cuff; cuff quilted as fronts, cuff edge bound in black satin; cuff fastening with four domed black plastic buttons, flat rouleau loops (of print); placket in seam
lining: printed cotton in body and as cuff facings; sleeves unlined
fastening: centre front; six black plastic domed buttons, flat rouleau loops
label: 1. printed, brown on cream ‘Stephanie Jane, Original Design’; 2. printed, cleaning instructions ‘Hand Wash’; 3. tag ‘14’ in red
2. skirt: foldover waistband; one piece of cotton with print running vertical (instead of horizontal bands), pleated to waist; seam at back; fold of satin at bottom with deep band of cotton, print horizontal, side seams
fastening: black plastic domed button, buttonhole on waistband; ‘Gala’ nylon zip at centre back
label: washing instructions as jacket
worn by donor when she was presented, alongside her husband, Douglas Coyne, to H. M. the Queen at the opening of on the Henry Cole wing of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1982. Douglas Coyne had designed the coat of arms above the entrance to the wing.,
Accession number: NCMG 2005-91/1-2 | Subjects: | printed textiles costume (women's) | Temporal: | 1982 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | Nottingham | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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