Antique-Gown

Fuchsia Silk Velvet Opera Cape, ca. 1916

Amazing pink silk velvet opera coat with black velvet and Ermine accents. The coat has a wide black velvet collar. The collar closes at the throat with a large hook and eye. Large ornamental rosettes and side by side matching pink velvet closures close the center front of the coat with hidden snaps. These are amazing. Fixed vertical pleats accent the upper bodice of the coat. A horizontal pleat with pink velvet on one side and black velvet on the other angles across the front of the coat below the bust line. Further pleating is fixed at the underarm seam below the pink/black pleat that releases its fullness into the main body of the coat. The Bishops sleeves are cuffed in Ermine. The horizontal pleat is repeated across the back of the coat with an addition of a hand tied black silk tassel. The coat is lined with two-tone pink striped silk. Good to very good condition. There are issues with the lining mainly splitting of the fabric. A part of the lining is stabilized with an overlay of white tulle.

Bust: ~ 50"
Length: ~ 49"