Gray beaded capelet with fur collar and trim
date: label: Date
content: 1950s - 1960s
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: A gray beaded capelet (a) with a fur collar (b) and trim (c). The gray beaded capelet (a) is made from one continuous panel of gray boiled wool that has been shaped with perpendicular shoulder darts. One set of darts start at the neck and extend to the top of the shoulder. The second set of darts measure 6” and meet the shoulder darts crosswise. The front of the cap has a 3.5" decorative border made from dark gray synthetic cording, green chainstitched synthetic thread, and a single strand of black glass faceted beads, all sewn in a meandering pattern. The rest of the body of the cape features densely packed strands of black glass faceted beads that are also chainstitched in a meandering pattern. The cape front closes at the front with a single metal hook and eye. Two 3” neckline darts are on the center back of the cape. The interior opening is faced with a 3” panel of self-fabric. Bronze silk satin lines the cape and mirrors the outside of the cape in construction and dart placement. There is a small piece of sticky backed plastic Velcro on the lining of the proper left shoulder. All the garment seams are machine stitched together. There is no label.
label: Description
content: A white and gray fur collar (b). The crescent shaped fur collar is made from long white and gray fox fur with the white fur centralized around the center of the collar, and the silver fur on the outer edge of the collar. Two panels of fox fur have been hand sewn together at the center back and backed with cream colored cotton flannel. Two panels of maroon synthetic lining were machine stitched together, then handstitched to the collar. Black cotton twill tape is sewn around the underside perimeter of the collar.
label: Description
content: (c) A white fox fur trim made from one pelt with a leather binding strip that has been hand sewn 3/4" of the way through it.
label: Cataloging Notes
content: This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Fashion
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Black Fashion Museum Collection
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Fashion and Historical
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2007.3.668abc
objectType: label: Type
content: capes (outerwear)
label: Type
content: collars (neckwear)
label: Type
content: outerwear
label: Type
content: stole (outerwear)
label: Type
content: cape
label: Type
content: evening wrap
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: (a) wool, glass bead, synthetic cording, silk satin, plastic, synthetic thread, and metal
label: Medium
content: (b) fur, silk faille, flannel, and cotton twill tape
label: Medium
content: (c) fur, leather
label: Dimensions
content: (a) Length (Collar to hem): 17 in. (43.2 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Width (Shoulder to shoulder): 18 in. (45.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: (b) Length (End to end): 23 1/2 in. (59.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Width: (Widest point): 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: (c) Length (End to end): 21 in. (53.3 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Width: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)