Dress & Coat
Manufacturer: Jeanne Lanvin
Date: 1934
Medium: Fibre: wool (crepe); metal
Dimensions:
a: Dress C.F 106cm, C.B 116 Sleeve, underarm 20cm
b: Coat C.F 97cm, C.B 100cm, sleeve underarm 46cm
Classification: Costume and Textiles
Object number: 1981.18.86a,b
Label text:Belonged to Mrs. Wilson (Babbie) who lived in Oakville from 1947 to 1981.
The house of Lanvin, named after its founder, Jeanne Lanvin, is the oldest surviving fashion house in continuous existence. Jeanne Lanvin was born in 1867, the eldest of 10 children. At thirteen, Jeanne became a dressmaker's errand girl and her teens were spent as an apprentice milliner, from which she moved up to be a dressmaker's assistant before she felt ready to work for herself.
At eighteen, she opened a small millinery workshop in Rue du Marché-Saint-Honoré in 1885, funded by her own small savings by the 1920s, she was one of the most commercially successful couturiers working in Paris. Lanvin was about clothes creating clothes that gave women confidence. No Lanvin gown ever overwhelmed the women wearing it.
The house of Lanvin, named after its founder, Jeanne Lanvin, is the oldest surviving fashion house in continuous existence. Jeanne Lanvin was born in 1867, the eldest of 10 children. At thirteen, Jeanne became a dressmaker's errand girl and her teens were spent as an apprentice milliner, from which she moved up to be a dressmaker's assistant before she felt ready to work for herself.
At eighteen, she opened a small millinery workshop in Rue du Marché-Saint-Honoré in 1885, funded by her own small savings by the 1920s, she was one of the most commercially successful couturiers working in Paris. Lanvin was about clothes creating clothes that gave women confidence. No Lanvin gown ever overwhelmed the women wearing it.
DescriptionGrey wool crepe dress and coat from Lanvin's Summer 1934 collection.
a: Dress- square neckline with wide pointed band of closely stitched fabric and 3 octagonal silver metal buttons, belt with similar stitched band and buttons. Short kimona sleeves open down top of sleeves with similar stitched band and buttons on cuffs. Straight skirt slightly flared in five sections. Bodice and skirt cut in one piece, length to above ankle.
b: Coat - 3/4 length in matching wool, self lined, fabric used double, round neckline closely stiched to form yoke with silver metal octagonal buttons attached by loops, raglan sleeves with wide cuffs.
a: Dress- square neckline with wide pointed band of closely stitched fabric and 3 octagonal silver metal buttons, belt with similar stitched band and buttons. Short kimona sleeves open down top of sleeves with similar stitched band and buttons on cuffs. Straight skirt slightly flared in five sections. Bodice and skirt cut in one piece, length to above ankle.
b: Coat - 3/4 length in matching wool, self lined, fabric used double, round neckline closely stiched to form yoke with silver metal octagonal buttons attached by loops, raglan sleeves with wide cuffs.
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