Description
French habit jacket, modified for a transvestite ball, Maison WORTH, circa 1860-1880. Gentleman's jacket circa 1775 in brown Gros de Tours fashioned with dots embroidered with sprays of brightly colored silk flowers transformed by darts at the waist and the addition of a vest in silver cloth embroidered with metallic pearls and a vest in silver brocade, miniature cut velvet with brown waves on a purple background. Abundantly embroidered mainly in white silk and polychrome of exotic flowers, plumes and grasses. Claw Worth on ivory waistband sewn to the back whalebone (notable wear, satin knots added to the collar and elbows tapered, cutting at the waist darned, light blue satin lining added in the nineteenth century).
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French habit jacket, modified for a transvestite ball, Maison WORTH, circa 1860-1880. Gentleman's jacket circa 1775 in brown Gros de Tours fashioned with dots embroidered with sprays of brightly colored silk flowers transformed by darts at the waist and the addition of a vest in silver cloth embroidered with metallic pearls and a vest in silver brocade, miniature cut velvet with brown waves on a purple background. Abundantly embroidered mainly in white silk and polychrome of exotic flowers, plumes and grasses. Claw Worth on ivory waistband sewn to the back whalebone (notable wear, satin knots added to the collar and elbows tapered, cutting at the waist darned, light blue satin lining added in the nineteenth century).
