Overcoat
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- Created Date
- circa 1950
- Description
Coat, evening-style, of blue gray silk moiré. High, rounded neckline. Center front opening with hook-and-eye fastening at neck. Semicircular elbow-length capelet over shoulders attaches at neckline. Wide, three-quarter raglan sleeves. Body of coat flares out in folds to hem, which falls to just below the knee. Light blue silk taffeta lining.
- Creator
Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Costume (mode of fashion)
Clothing
Main garments
Evening dress (concept)
Overcoats (outerwear)
Evening coats - Location
- Paris (France)
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Silk (fiber)Moiré
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer). Overcoat. circa 1950. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/770. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer), (circa 1950) Overcoat. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/770
- MLA citation style
- Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 (designer). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/770>.