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The sport suit was a development of the early 1920s, when women began to enter the job market in a major way, to drive, to vote, and in their leisure to play golf and other active sports. Here the French manufacturer borrowed from designs by the popular couturier Jean Patou (a favorite of the Tirocchi clientele) to create a sport suit of silk and rayon with collage trim reminiscent of cubism.

 

 

Robes de Paris, Manufacturer
French
After Jean Patou
French, 1887-1936
William H. Taylor, Inc., importer
American, New York
Sport Suit, ca. 1929
Silk; plain weave, and rayon;
gauze, embroidered and appliquŽd

Gift of Dr. Louis J. Cella, Jr.
1991.169.14a,b

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