#evening cloak

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Cloak

Jeanne Paquin

Spring/Summer 1920

National Gallery of Victoria

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Evening cloak.

Date: 1920 {spring-summer} 

Designer: Madame Joseph Paquin

Medium: Silk, metallic lace, silk/metallic thread, glass beads, gelatin sequins.

[artschoolglasses]

Redfern evening cloak, 1912

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Evening cloak, 1918.

[mote-historie]

Charles Martin, Danaë (Danae). Cape du soir de Paul Poiret (Evening cloak in velvet by Paul Poiret), La Gazette du Bon Ton, May 1914.

In Greek mythology, Danaë was the daughter, and only child of King Acrisius of Argos and his wife Queen Eurydice. She was the mother of the hero Perseus by Zeus. She was credited with founding the city of Ardea in Latium during the Bronze Age.

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Evening cloak. Date: 1885–89 Culture: French Medium: Silk, metal

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Evening cloak, 1912.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Evening cloak, 1920s.