Cape of deep red velvet with open front
- Title
- Cape of deep red velvet with open front
- LC Subject
- outerwear
- Donor
- Larson, Sarah Russell
- Designer
- Ransohoffs
- Description
- Cape of deep red velvet with open front; trimmed around neckline down to waist with closely, piled discs of velvet; two tiered flounces of self-velvet dip down back; cape is fitted at shoulders with no arm slits; lower mid-length; dipped hem in back; lined in red silk satin.
- Work Type
- capes (outerwear)
- Location
- United States France
- Date
- 1920/1929
- Identifier
- 1981.003.002
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Silk Velvet
- Technique
- Piled discs of velvet trim neckline
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Ransohoffs was an upscale department store in San Francisco. Ransohoffs was shown in Alfred Hitchcock's movie Vertigo.