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Versailles Dinner Jacket
An ivory dinner jacket in self-coloured silk brocade. Shawl collar, single covered button, paired with a midnight trouser.
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Brocade, kept quiet.
The Versailles is the brocade dinner jacket — a self-coloured Italian silk in a soft tonal motif, ivory on ivory, the pattern visible only when the light is on it.
French brocade has its own long history; the looms in Lyon were taught the pattern to dress the court at the palace north of Paris. We took the cloth and put a shawl collar on it. Nothing else.
Soft shoulder, half-canvas, single covered button. The lining is a plain silk in the same ivory, so the jacket reads from the inside the same way it reads from the outside. Three fittings.
It is the dinner jacket for the host, not the guest.
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