American Art Collaborative

Jacket - Short jacket of stiff camel colored wool felt; jewel neck; long raglan sleeves with under arm gussets, two fitting darts at elbows, and shoulder seams that extend into seams down the top of the sleeves; these seams ending into faced slit wrist openings; welted breast pocket at proper right side; the proper right side of the front overlaps the proper left side as for a double breasted closure, but there are only buttons on one side; bound buttonholes are worked through the proper right side and two four-hole 7/8" black plastic buttons are stitched to the proper left side to correspond with the bound buttonholes?one at the top corner of the front overlap and one at the bottom corner; bust shaping darts extend up from the front hem edge; the back of the jacket is seamed from the center of each shoulder to the hem; there is a vent present at the bottom of the proper right seam; the jacket hem is just below waist length in the front and curves around to become 5? longer across the back; the jacket is unlined; gray seam binding stays are visible in the sleeve gusset seams and at the top of the proper right hem vent; two woven labels stitched inside proper right front: "RUDI GERNREICH/DESIGN FOR/WALTER BASS" in gray on a white ground and "JAX" in black on a white ground. Skirt - A mid-calf length ½ circle skirt of gray wool flannel; the entire skirt is lined with stiff gray non-woven interfacing; 7/8" wide waist band with squared tab extension above full-length center front button opening; six four-hole 7/8" black plastic buttons and machine stitched buttonholes; hook and snap fasteners at waist band; six-gores flare from no additional fullness at the waist line to 18" wider each at the hem; each gore seam is top stitched creating a ¼" welt along the sides of each gore; on-seam pockets in each side seam; woven label: "RUDI GERNREICH/DESIGN FOR/WALTER BASS" in gray on a white ground stitched inside proper left front 10 3/8" up from hem edge.