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Artist/Maker	Fassett, Kaffe (designer) Bellini, Beatrice (maker)
Place of origin	Great Britain (made)

Skirt of hand-knitted Shetland wool. Blue, pink and green with a fringe at the hem. Shaped like a poncho, it is knitted in three pieces (back, front and waistband). It is patterned in multi-coloured stocking stitch. The waist is elasticated.

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Categories	Womenswear Fashion Scotland
Object type	Skirt
Materials and techniques	Hand-knitted Shetland wool
Brief description	1972c, British; Fassett, Kaffe. Hand-knitted Shetland wool
Physical description	Skirt of hand-knitted Shetland wool. Blue, pink and green with a fringe at the hem. Shaped like a poncho, it is knitted in three pieces (back, front and waistband). It is patterned in multi-coloured stocking stitch. The waist is elasticated.
Gallery label	(1985) SKIRT Hand-knitted wool British: Kaffe Fassett, 1970. The style of this skirt foreshadowed the 1970s vogue for ethnic clothes. Shaped like a poncho, it is knitted in three pieces (back, front and waistband) and fringed at the hem-line. It is patterned in multi-coloured stocking stitch. The waist is elasticated. This design was produced for Kaffe Fassett both by hand (by Beatrice Bellini) and machine (by Mildred Boulton). An identical skirt was worn by Raquel Welch (the Observer Colour Supplement, 20 December 1970). Kaffe Fassett, a Californian living in London, taught himself to knit after discovering a seductive, colourful range of yarns on a visit to Scotland. T.306-1985
Collection	Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number	T.306-1985

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O365691/skirt-fassett-kaffe/

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