dress with coat

Description: Dress with coat. c.1930. Brown china silk. Brown and yellow embroidered flowers. The coat and dress are attached. Long sleeves, sash tie collar, button trim. The 'coat' has a roll collar that falls in a deep V neck, and extends into long sashes that tie at the V point. The armholes have a corded binding. Jacket is actually sleeveless, and the sleeves attach instead to the dress beneath. They are quite loose, with a seam at the elbow. From this point to the wrist, there is a split in each sleeve. The slits are tacked back together at the wrists. A few inches below the sash tie, there is a seam in the jacket at the natural waistline. A belt is tacked to the sides and closes in the centre front with snaps. The centre front of the jacket is left out, and along the inside edge of either side front panel there is a heavy trim of metal self-fabric covered ball buttons from beneath the hips to the hem. At each side and at the centre back, there is a slit in the jacket from the knees to the hem, each trimmed in the same buttons. The dress beneath is made of the same brown silk, with an allover pattern of white and dark brown embroidered flowers. Only the sections that are visible beneath the jacket are made from this material; the covered sections in the bodice are made of ivory silk, and the covered section in the skirt are made of the same material as the jacket. There is no shaping in the dress. The jacket and dress hems both fall to calf length.

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