Girl's Jacket
ca. 1915 (made)
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Girl's flared double-breasted jacket of cream wool lined with white cotton. The jacket has a V-neck, with a deep falling collar trimmed with insertions and scalloped edging of machine-made needle lace, and wrist-length inset sleeves gathered at the shoulder and finished at the wrist with satin binding and lobed turn-back cuffs. The jacket is also trimmed with insertions of machine-made needle lace, and fastens at the front with two rows of large pearlized buttons and three stitched buttonholes (originally a hook and bar or hook and loop fastened at the collar front). The garment is finished with topstitching at the edges (including the collar and cuffs) and has two side vents, each finished with arrowhead stitching.
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Materials and techniques | Wool, cotton, satin, machine made needle lace |
Brief description | Girl's jacket, cream wool trimmed with machine made needle lace; made by Maria Vola Giacomelli of Turin; Italy, ca. 1915 |
Physical description | Girl's flared double-breasted jacket of cream wool lined with white cotton. The jacket has a V-neck, with a deep falling collar trimmed with insertions and scalloped edging of machine-made needle lace, and wrist-length inset sleeves gathered at the shoulder and finished at the wrist with satin binding and lobed turn-back cuffs. The jacket is also trimmed with insertions of machine-made needle lace, and fastens at the front with two rows of large pearlized buttons and three stitched buttonholes (originally a hook and bar or hook and loop fastened at the collar front). The garment is finished with topstitching at the edges (including the collar and cuffs) and has two side vents, each finished with arrowhead stitching. |
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Production type | Ready to wear |
Marks and inscriptions | Maria Vola Giacomelli/ Via Pietro Micca 4/ TORINO
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Credit line | Isabella Henrietta Granger Bequest |
Object history | Isabella Henrietta Granger Bequest (RF 92/303). Isabella or Isabelle Granger was born in Essex in 1906, the daughter of Harold Granger and his wife (née Isabella Rebecca Dodd) and died in London in 1990. The bequest came via her solicitors who could give no information about her or the garments. It has since been possible to trace her parents' names and the date of her birth, and it is probable that the clothes were worn by her and/ or her sister Brynhild Katharine (born 1908) as a child. |
Production | Date revised from new information about bequestor |
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Accession number | MISC.721-1992 |
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Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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