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Fashion Design

1920 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drawing of the back view of a woman in a fur coat. The closely fitted bodice and sleeves are made from rows of horizontal fur stitched together, with a different, darker fur around the neck and wrists, with a matching muff of the darker fur. The skirt of the coat is made of two squares made up of vertical rows of fur and edged around with the darker fur, and applied to the bottom of the body of the coat, two corners overlapping at the wearer's lower back and parting in the back to expose the skirt of the dress beneath, creating a handkerchief-effect hemline. The model wears a soft, brimmed hat trimmed with a single feather falling over the brim down the side of the wearer's face.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Coloured chalks, ink and other media on toned paper
Brief description
Jules de Ban for Lucile Ltd., 1920. Woman's day coat of fur with matching muff.
Physical description
Drawing of the back view of a woman in a fur coat. The closely fitted bodice and sleeves are made from rows of horizontal fur stitched together, with a different, darker fur around the neck and wrists, with a matching muff of the darker fur. The skirt of the coat is made of two squares made up of vertical rows of fur and edged around with the darker fur, and applied to the bottom of the body of the coat, two corners overlapping at the wearer's lower back and parting in the back to expose the skirt of the dress beneath, creating a handkerchief-effect hemline. The model wears a soft, brimmed hat trimmed with a single feather falling over the brim down the side of the wearer's face.
Dimensions
  • Average size of sheets in set height: 41.9cm
  • Average size of sheets in set width: 27.3cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
'de Ban / 1920' (Signed and dated)
Credit line
Given by the artist
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.2918-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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