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The beautiful lyre-shaped front seaming of this coat functions simultaneously as a decorative and a structural shaping device. But the essence of James’s ingenious engineering is seen at the back, where the panels from the shoulders are cut in one with the side panels of the skirt, avoiding the conventionally placed seams of traditional tailoring.
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Details
- Title: Coat
- Creator: Charles James
- Date Created: 1945
- Physical Dimensions: Length at CB: 47 in. (119.4 cm)
- Type: Coat
- External Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Collection Online
- Medium: wool, silk
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Millicent Huttleston Rogers, 1949
- Creator Death Date: 1978
- Creator Birth Date: 1906
- Accession Number: 2009.300.133a, b
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