American Art Collaborative

"Schoolboy" ensemble consisting of a hat, tunic, shorts, stockings and neck bow in black, white and red wool knit; tunic and shorts labeled size 10. Hat - bowler shaped with an extended upturned brim; black wool knit over a buckram form; crown lined with black taffeta and finished with a black grosgrain sweat band; tubular knitted wool ties extend from under the sweatband at both sides; woven label at center back: "LAYNE NIELSON/FOR/RUDI GERNREICH" in black on a white ground. Tunic - a long sleeved tunic of black wool double knit with a white wool double knit flat collar; top stitched self-fabric vertical bands extend from shoulder to hem each side of front and back; self-fabric dropped-waist belt threaded beneath bands at low waist level; center back zipper closure in tunic; black metal snap fasteners close belt; Gernreich label and care instructions label stitched to seam allowance at the proper right side of the center back opening.