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Object Name: coat dress

Artist/Maker: Cavanagh, John
Role in production: Designer
Place of Creation: Manchester, United Kingdom
Date: 1953

Accession Number: 1957.484
Credit: Manchester City Galleries

Physical Description

Medium / Material

cotton

Support

Technique

woven

Description

Fawn twilled cotton (doeskin) lined with black cotton (poplin).

Fastening with buttons to V neck with revers. Shaped to waist and flared below. Slit pocket of black cotton each side. Fitting to waist, flared below. Very short sleeves. Wide loose collar. Hips padded. Net interlining skirt except at CF.

See also file on British Cotton Couture Exhibition 1985 in dept.

Dimensions

Type: Length
Height: 127 cm
Width:
Depth:

Type: Shoulders
Height:
Width: 40.5
Depth:

Type: Hem
Height:
Width: 238.8
Depth: