Teens or 1920s Ballas Hess Black Silk Jacket w Gorgeous Pockets & Sleeves designer-zandra-rhodes greens and purples

greens and purples

A very rare and special bolt of hand painted Fortuny fabric that is extraordinarily beautiful

This would have been designed and created under the eye of Yves himself and this top has the added provenance of coming directly from the daughter of the Haute Couture client so has not been on the market prior to this

I like ladylike

The front has a panel of fabric that crosses over the front

Teens or 1920s Ballas Hess Black Silk Jacket w Gorgeous Pockets & Sleeves designer-zandra-rhodes greens and purplesThe Ballas Hess Company "was founded in the late 1800s as National Cloak & Suit and renamed National Bellas Hess around 1910, as folklore has it. It was located between Washington, Morton and Barrow streets in New Yorks Greenwich Village. We have no agents or branch stores, it said in its 1920 21 fall winter catalog. We sell only direct from this catalog and anyone claiming to represent us is an imposter. They were one of the big, early catalogue