- Description
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- Image includes small sketch of back of garment.
- Printed on image: "Shirrings at upper part of coat lend softness to body." "designed by Pearl Alexander" "André 570 - 7th Ave. New York City Dec. 16, 1940"
- Slim boxy coat with "Art Deco" style curved panels. This coat's vertical layers, with their parallel lines and curves at the top, evoke streamlined Art Deco surfaces. The gathers of the shirring at the shoulders and chest soften the overall sculpted, almost architectural, shape of the garment.
- Date
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- 1940-12-16
- Spring 1940-1941
- Identifier
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- DD 793
- 2003813
- b3d7fa90-c5d2-012f-1859-58d385a7bc34
- Rights
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- This image is the property of the New York Public Library and was originally digitized as part of the collaborative project, “André Studios 1930-1941: Fashion Drawings & Sketches in the Collections of the Fashion Institute of Technology and The New York Public Library.” Any questions regarding reuse of this image should be directed to the New York Public Library (please see: http://nypl.org/permissions). Users can additionally locate the NYPL copy of the image in their Digital Collections (https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/) and consult the associated rights statement.
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- Citation
- Alexander, Pearl Levy [Designer] and André (Firm) [Creator], “Slim boxy coat.,” SPARC Digital, accessed October 7, 2024, https://sparcdigital.fitnyc.edu/items/show/10149.
