vest
date: label: Date made
content: 1963-1980
name: label: maker
content: Clare Potter
label: designer
content: Clare Potter
label: used by
content: Clare Potter
label: maker
content: Clare Potter
notes: label: Description
content: Shaggy tan fur pullover vest; fur with light and dark streaks, coarser hair and guard hairs; V-neckline in front; round neckline in back; neckline bound in tan velveteen binding; sleeveless; deep, curved armholes bound in tan velveteen; A-line shape; bottom bound in velveteen binding; lined in taupe variegated, slubbed fabric
label: Description
content: Donor Virginia "Jimmie" Booth was a buyer for Lord & Taylor and was involved in Lord & Taylor's American Look program of the 1930s to 60s. American Look promoted American designers, and L&T president Dorothy Shaver chose designer Clare Potter early on for the program. Since the 1950s Booth was a close friend of Potter. This vest belonged to Potter who according to the donor wore it all the time in her later years. In the 1960s-70s fur vest and jackets were shown in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and other magazine promotions as fun-fur to be worn as apres-ski wear or for informal at-home entertaining in the winter. Potter lived in the countryside raising dalmations. Archival materials from Booth, including sketches from Potter, can be found in Archives Center collection NMAH.AC.0729.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: used in
content: United States: New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Virginia W. Booth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0093.023
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Vest
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Vest
label: Object Type
content: Upper Body
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: center back: 25 1/2 in; 64.77 cm