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Title
Dressy box coat
Names
Alexander, Pearl Levy (Designer)
André (Firm) (Creator)
Collection

André Fashion Illustrations from NYPL's Picture Collection

1940s Coat.

Dates / Origin
Place: New York
Date Created: 1940-12-16
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC Andre COSTU-Coa-194
Topics
Fashion
Coats -- 1940-1949
Women -- Clothing & dress -- United States -- 1940-1949
Turbans
Buttons (Fasteners) -- 1900-1999
Shirring
Genres
Fashion design drawings
Illustrations
Notes
Source identifier: 24311a (Hades Legacy Identifier / Struc ID)
Content: Image includes small sketch of back of garment.
Content: Dressy, slim-lined box coat with shirred shoulder treatment. The coat's buttons look like sprigs of leaves, or maybe birds. One can't quite tell from the illustration, and there's no mention of them in the description on the picture.
Content: Printed on image: "Very slim lines. Shirring beneath shoulder seams lends softness to body." "designed by Pearl Alexander" "André 570 - 7th Ave. New York City Dec. 16, 1940"
Date: Illustration origninally bound in Spring, 1940-1941.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b334f5f0-c5d2-012f-9dc4-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library holds or manages the copyright(s) in this item. If you need information about reusing this item, please go to: http://nypl.org/permissions

Item timeline of events

  • : Place
  • 1940: Created
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Dressy box coat" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1940. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9921a168-a0df-1c4d-e040-e00a180669ef

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Dressy box coat" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9921a168-a0df-1c4d-e040-e00a180669ef

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1940). Dressy box coat Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9921a168-a0df-1c4d-e040-e00a180669ef

Wikipedia Citation

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Dressy box coat