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dinner jackets

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Men's suit coats cut sack-style, usually with satin- or faille-faced lapels. Worn with trousers having a stripe down the outside of the leg to form a tuxedo.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Dinner jacket

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-044
Collection Overview

Black wool dinner jacket, lined in black with sleeves lined in mauve, carries a label sewn inside collar: "Bentschner and Visanska Fashionable Outfitters, Charleston, S.C." A label on an interior pocket states: "Tailored in all-wool/fabric by A.B. Kirschbaum Co., Philadelphia, New York" and provides a line for the owner's name and date.

Dates: between 1915-1940