Vogue Couturie dress coat - fabric?

[zannew]

Hello,

I wondered if you could tell me if this is a particular type of fabric - It's heavy weight - feels like perhaps a rayon or cotton blend. The right side and wrong side look the same.

Would you agree this is from the 50s? Would you call it a dress coat? Swing coat? Opera coat?

Thank you!

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

Hello, that's a nice Vogue Couturier label you have there - we don't have that yet in the Label Resource. If you'd like to submit it, we could add it.

These labels were provided with Vogue patterns and mad up by the home sewer (or professional dressmaker). Your coat is lovely, I agree with swing coat, or opera coat - it's a dressy evening coat, looks like a '50s style although the fabric - looks like a lovely silk Ottoman - was popular in the late '60s.

With home sewn items they can sometimes be sewn later than the pattern was made, and the fabric suggests it could be '60s. If the coat was made in the '50s a good fabric would be silk faille, and I wonder if someone just preferred the thicker rib so found one? I think it's safe to date as '50s, probably early '50s.

Lovely coat, I find these always go very well.

 

[cactusandcattails]

I think it is probably Faille

from the VFG fabric resource

A plain weave fabric with pronounced, fairly flat crosswise ribs and a silky, somewhat lustrous surface, faille is the name given to such fabric in a range of weights. The weave is constructed with heavier (or grouped) weft yarns and finer and more numerous warp yarns. The warp fibers are usually filament (silk, manufactured fibers) while the weft is usually cotton or cotton blends, sometimes wool or silk. Faille may be used for moiré.
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http://vintagefashionguild.org/fabric-resource/faille/

I agree with 50s

 

[zannew]

Yes, I'd be happy to have you add the label to the label resource.

 

[Rue_de_la_Paix]

I agree with Nicole, it is an Ottoman weave. Faille is much finer in scale. It is a lovely coat.