Vintage Suede Ladies Jacket

[ChloeR]

Hi,

I posted a while back about a boys leather jacket that was made by Adastra, an English company based in London, who specialised in mens and boys outerwear.

My great grandmother had been the foreman of the shop/factory at Adastra approximately from the 1930s-1940s. She was a leather and suede tailoress.

I have a suede ladies jacket, that I believe she also made. There looks like there was a label in it, but at some stage it has been removed. I am trying to date it, and so far this has proved to be quite tricky!

My mother told me my great grandmother had made this jacket (which I have no reason not to believe) and that it was a 1930s swagger coat. But I am struggling to find anything similar from the 1930s and one of my tutors at university says I needed to question this. Mainly because of the collar!

Any help greatly appreciated.

Photos included. (Forgive its condition it's been sat in a wardrobe at my dads and there's signs of some damp

 

[poppysvintageclothing]

Can you show us a photo of where the label had been and where was the placement of the label.

 

[ChloeR]

Hi, yes of course. Please find a photograph of the inside of the jacket where the label was
.

 

[dollsntrolls]

I wouldn't place this any earlier than 40s - those shoulders are too wide set, and they appear padded. Is that padding, or is that the drape that makes them appear that way? Also, the swagger style seems later 40s - early 50s, when there was more material available after the war ended. Maybe a full picture of the interior would help! And, another thought - the 70s and 80s borrowed heavily from the 40s, and I can easily see this fit into a bohemian wardrobe from either of those decades.

 

[ChloeR]

I wouldn't place this any earlier than 40s - those shoulders are too wide set, and they appear padded. Is that padding, or is that the drape that makes them appear that way? Also, the swagger style seems later 40s - early 50s, when there was more material available after the war ended. Maybe a full picture of the interior would help! And, another thought - the 70s and 80s borrowed heavily from the 40s, and I can easily see this fit into a bohemian wardrobe from either of those decades.

Hi, thank you. Yes the shoulders are padded.
Yes that's right, I have seen some examples of jackets that were from later eras such as the 1980s and 90s but inspired by the 1940s. But I wonder if my grandmother would have still been making then as she was born in 1899, so think this would rule out it being 1970s or 80s, who knows?! But I guess this now throws up the possibility that it was made by someone else!!! Which is what I think
one of my tutors was suggesting could be the case. Full photograph of the inside of the jacket attached.