#evening cape

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1895 Evening cape by Jacques Doucet (France)

cotton velvet, silk, ostrich feathers, metal sequins, glass beads, gold thread

(Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin)

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Evening Cape.

Date: 1894

Place of origin: United States

Medium: Silk

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

Evening cape, 1924 by Madeleine Vionnet

This cape is made of black silk velvet shapes on a white satin background with a ermine collar and lining

This dress can be found in: Musée des Arts Decoratifs

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Evening cape by Elsa Schiaparelli, 1937, France.

[walzerjahrhundert]

Emile Pingat / Maison Pingat

Evening cape

French

1890                            

[professorpski]

Blue Bow Clasp, or A Perennial Motif in Fashion

A bow can be a real thing in fashion. Think two actual lengths of cloth tied into a bow that closes a dress or shoe. Pull on it and the dress or shoe falls open. Or it can be an unreal thing. Think a bow on a dress that looks tied but does not untie because it is really one length of cloth looped prettily and another length tacked around it keeping the pretty loops in place. Or a bow can be a motif. For example, the trompe l-oeil, French for “fool the eye” of a dark sweater with a an apparent pale collar and bow which was really only the use of two different colors of yarn which became a fad that made Elsa Schiaparelli famous for designing it in 1927. Bows have been tacked all over dresses as well, again serving no purpose but decoration.

This clasp serves a purpose and is decoration, but is only a reminder of a snappy little bow. This would have clasped shut an evening cape or coat and is made of base metal and blue glass gems. See on the back of the bow the bar on each half, each has two little holes for sewing the clasp to the edge of the garment. This could date almost any decade of the 20th Century because bows have been a perennial motif. It is over three inches long and is making me think that I really need to build up my outerwear for evening.

[ms-mandy-m]

Eve Delft photographed by Iakovos Kalaitzakis for Jenny Packham Fall 2019.

[fawnvelveteen]

French Evening Cape with Trimmings Emile Pingat style 1890 - 1905