Blazer
ca. 1935-1939 (made)
| Place of origin |
Traditional European style jacket. Single breasted fastened with a single button. Collar and lapels, two lower front pockets, one left hand breast pocket with red embroidered badge (with a Burmese inscription still to be translated) and two inside pockets. White with narrow woven stripes of maroon and yellow. Further decorated on the collar and lapels and lower half of the jacket with repeating rows of geometric patterns in blue, red, green and yellow.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Cotton textile and threads. Dye. Weaving. Tailored. Stitching. Dyeing |
| Brief description | Man's European cut maroon and yellow striped white cotton jacket made in Burma imitating an Oxbridge blazer. Further decorated with an embroidered breast pocket and rows of geometric patterns in blue, red, green and yellow. c. 1935 to 1939. |
| Physical description | Traditional European style jacket. Single breasted fastened with a single button. Collar and lapels, two lower front pockets, one left hand breast pocket with red embroidered badge (with a Burmese inscription still to be translated) and two inside pockets. White with narrow woven stripes of maroon and yellow. Further decorated on the collar and lapels and lower half of the jacket with repeating rows of geometric patterns in blue, red, green and yellow. |
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| Object history | Believed to have been acquired by the donor's father while he lived in Burma during the second half of the 1930s. Historical significance: Imitation of an Oxbridge summer blazer. |
| Other number | LOAN:COCHRANE D F.11 - Previous loan number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.33-1998 |
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| Record created | November 3, 2003 |
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