Unknown artist
Harry Angelo Company, importer
American, New York, Paris, Chicago Sketch, 1926
Mimeograph, hand-colored

Gift of L. J. Cella III
1990.030a

The "robe" below is composed of several pre-embroidered panels attached to a buckram band. In the Tirocchi shop, curators found this sketch, which depicts a coat made from this "robe" and is meant to show the dressmakers how to put the pieces together. The pattern on the taffeta "robe" reflects the influence of the Wiener Werksttäte (Vienna Workshops), which produced modernist fashions using a vocabulary of grids and abstract flowers akin to the embroidered ornament on this coat.

French maker
Harry Angelo Company, importer
American, New York, Paris, Chicago
"Robe," 1926
Rayon; plain weave, embroidered with silk and
gold metallic thread

Gift of L. J. Cella III
1990.030b

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