suit, 3-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1965 - 1969
name: label: maker
content: Chanel, Coco
notes: label: Description
content: Jacket and skirt are off-white shantung; Jacket: long set-in sleeves; deep slit at lower end of sleeve is fastened with two off-white buttons having a raised interlocking double "C" motif; notched collar; CF opening fastens with three buttons like those on sleeves; two patch pockets on either side of front have a notched flap and decorative off-white stitching; boxy, unfitted style cut straight across at lower edge; flat blue and red piping finishes upper part of collar, pocket flaps, and sleeve ends; decorative white topstitching; white silk lining with chain-weights. Skirt: A-line style with a seamed panel at front and back; darted at waistline with a turned under upper edge; white silk lining left back zipper opening; CB length 23-1/2". Blouse: Red and blue seamed horizontal stripe; shantung; sleeveless; squared off neckline drops lower in back forming straps at shoulders; slightly fitted. CB zipper opening.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Theresa von Pantz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1083.001
label: accession number
content: 1979.1083
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1083.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Suit, 3-Piece
label: Object Type
content: Suit
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Entire Body
label: Other Terms
content: Suit, 3-Piece; Entire Body; Main Dress; Female