Victorian Handmade Chantilly Lace Jacket designer-oleg-cassini while the jacket has hidden

while the jacket has hidden hook & eye at the top of the neck

An amazing testament to construction and pure joy of form

Item# DD986

Note that the belt shows some separation from the back leather backing where the glue has let go but presents perfectly from the front

The dress was made properly and in traditional manners with all the little details one comes to expect in high end vintage

Victorian Handmade Chantilly Lace Jacket designer-oleg-cassini while the jacket has hiddenAn amazing and exceedingly rare, Victorian hand made chantilly lace jacket. The shape is created by the lace making process, not cut out of a piece of cloth in other words it was made deliberately to be this shape as it was meticulously hand made stitch by stitch. It is cut fuller through the back as it would have been made to leave room for a bustle at the back. It is not super fitted so may have been a maternity jacket, or morning coat they were