- Title
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- Nautical-style coat with sailor's collar and overlapping layers at shoulders.
- Description
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- Printed on image: "André Fashions" "NAUTICAL COAT[.] New smooth shoulder treatment" "designed by Pearl Alexander" "ANDRE' 570 - 7th Ave New York City Feb. 17, 1941"
- The back of the coat's collar is large and square ("sailor's collar") in nautical style, while the large buttons on the front resemble those on a pea coat. Overlapping layers of buttoned fabric on the sleeves mimic chevrons on a military uniform. Even the hat looks like a French sailor's hat.
- Written on image at top, next to arrow pointing at collar: "white caracul". Caracul is Persian lamb, or a fabric woven to look like it.
- Image includes small sketch of back of garment. Note how typed date of drawing has neen corrected in pen.
- Date
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- 1941-02-17
- Spring 1940-1941
- Identifier
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- VV 961
- 2003936
- de723610-c5d2-012f-6439-58d385a7bc34
- 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], “Nautical-style coat with sailor's collar and overlapping layers at shoulders.,” SPARC Digital, accessed September 14, 2024, https://sparcdigital.fitnyc.edu/items/show/10265.
