Jean Charles Worth
Woman's Cape1925

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Designer: Jean Charles Worth
France, active 1920-1936
Design House: Worth
France, Paris, founded 1858
Textile designed by: Jean Dunand
Switzerland, active France, 1877 - 1942
Manufacturer: Bianchini Férier
France, Lyons, 1889-1964
Title: Woman's Cape
Place Made: France, Paris
Date Made: 1925
Medium: Silk satin with metallic-thread warp patterning and metallic-thread and silk satin (lamé)
Dimensions: Center back length: 44 1/2 in. (113.03 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Pasadena Playhouse
Accession Number: 63.40
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography: Rado, Mei Mei. "Fabric of Light, Surface of Displacement: Lamé and Its Shine in Early Twentieth -Century French Fashion," in Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture, edited by Antje Krause-Wahl, Petra Loffler, and Anne Soll. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

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Designer: Jean Charles Worth
France, active 1920-1936
Design House: Worth
France, Paris, founded 1858
Textile designed by: Jean Dunand
Switzerland, active France, 1877 - 1942
Manufacturer: Bianchini Férier
France, Lyons, 1889-1964
Title: Woman's Cape
Place Made: France, Paris
Date Made: 1925
Medium: Silk satin with metallic-thread warp patterning and metallic-thread and silk satin (lamé)
Dimensions: Center back length: 44 1/2 in. (113.03 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Pasadena Playhouse
Accession Number: 63.40
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography: Rado, Mei Mei. "Fabric of Light, Surface of Displacement: Lamé and Its Shine in Early Twentieth -Century French Fashion," in Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture, edited by Antje Krause-Wahl, Petra Loffler, and Anne Soll. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.