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Description: | evening coat made from light-weight sky-blue Indian silk (probably a sari) with deep gold metal thread brocade border (composed of bands of stylised flowers and peacocks). Lining of light-weight printed silk with "Paisley" cones in yellow and red on a green ground. Cut as a cloak with gathering at dropped shoulder and waist forming arm openings. Turn down shawl collar formed from the brocade and running into fronts. Single button(black composition with coloured mosaic) and loop fastening to left waist. Back waist seam and stepped side-front seam. label cb neck "woven gold on white "Monte Carlo, Fashionable House, Charles and Antoine Vichy"
Technique: printed
Technique: woven
Material: silk
Material: brocade
evening coat by Vichy, Charles and Antoine, Indian production, c1925, (1996.24). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.10109 | Go to resource |
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