Jacket

Title

Jacket

Subject

Found abandoned in an International District building where clothing for Chinese workers was produced.

Description

Large woman's Chinese style jacket Blue Indigo dyed cotton polished hand sewn 3/4 length dolman sleeves with additions near the wrist different blue mandarin collar with black trim black appliqued bands around neck diagonal front opening black "frogs" at collar and 3 at the side one decorative frog at diagonal opening is made with white petal design with red center and outlined in black cotton and a cloth ball button; black bias trim on sleeve openings. Underlap in front has a shorter curved bottom side splits faced with lighter blue material. Narrow hem with a slight curve

Identifier

1999.073.008

Collection