These charming ladies smoking jacket was very popular in the 1920s during the Jazz age and were worn with silk trousers and camisoles, long cigarette holders and bobbed hair. They were hand embroidered in China for the Western market. They also come in polychrome silks. They are of course very wearable today.
The short jacket with revers and straight sleeves, a loop and button fastening, the black silk ground embroidered in ivory twisted silks with scenes of everyday life in China, with woman and servants on terraces , besides pavillions and surrounded by a variety of flowers and trees, animals and birds, lined in ivory silk satin,
Excellent.
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