Ensemble: overcoat with attached cape and hood
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1889
- Description
Coat of pink silk satin and dark purple pink ciselé velvet with iris pattern. Fabric is gathered into crew neckline and edged with brown fur around neckline and down center front to hem. Embroidered net hood attaches to coat in the same seam as the cape. Long sleeves. Back of coat left open from center back waist to hem with wide silk satin ribbon ties to form closure. Full length.
- Creator
House of Rouff (designer)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Costume (mode of fashion)
Clothing
Outerwear
Overcoats (outerwear)
Capes (outerwear)
Evening coats
Palmer, Bertha Honoré, 1849-1918 - Location
- Paris (France)
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Chest: (44 in)Waist: (30 in)Hip: (44 in)Length: (57.5 in)Other: (48 in)Other: (14.5 in)Length: (54 in)Other: (144 in)Silk (fiber)SatinCiselé velvetFur (hair material)Lace (needlework)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- House of Rouff (designer). Ensemble: overcoat with attached cape and hood. 1889. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/526. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- House of Rouff (designer), (1889) Ensemble: overcoat with attached cape and hood. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/526
- MLA citation style
- House of Rouff (designer). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/526>.