1920s or 1930s Handmade Assuit & Velvet Tie Front Flapper Jacket 1920s and Antique The sheen of that fabric

The sheen of that fabric is then picked up with the heavy covering of glossy black sequins that make up the body and skirt of the dress

might have been passing through on their way to or from lovers' assignations

It has an inner ties and then it wraps over itself and is secured in place by one of her logo embossed buttons at the side

I love the double row of buttons set low on the front - a signature detail

Item# DD1097

1920s or 1930s Handmade Assuit & Velvet Tie Front Flapper Jacket 1920s and Antique The sheen of that fabricThis is a wonderful little jacket made from a combination of assuit and black velvet. The technique used to make the assuit part of the jacket has been done for a very long time and is still done today but not to the same degree and quality of the pieces done in the twenties. I suspect that this was assembled sometime in the late 1920s or early thirties from an earlier assuit shawl this was often done to get more life out of earlier pieces. It is cut