Extraordinary 1920s Embroidered Silk Fringe Piano Shawl designer-frank-usher Item# S626

Item# S626

Each sleeve has a heavy zipper

The cut is spectacular - the fabric means it forms to the body but then the sleeves and pant legs are flared out and wide

Easily replace or re-coated but left as is as they are original to the dress

Maggy Reeves was a couture designer in Canada and her pieces are as rare as rare can be

Extraordinary 1920s Embroidered Silk Fringe Piano Shawl designer-frank-usher Item# S626This is a spectacular and huge embroidered silk Chinese export shawl from the twenties. The floral design is particularly bright and vivid on this one and those brilliant pops of color are perfectly offset by the black silk backdrop. It is a spectacular explosion of flowers, birds and butterflies done in a satin stitch. The colors are as vibrant as the day it was done. Very dramatic and so wearable you can use it as an evening cape or coat by adding a