Description:
Embroidered blue wool boy's jacket.

Label Text:
Black embroidery and velvet piping embellish this boxy jacket, which a boy wold have worn with a white shirt and straight-fitting trousers. Known as a Zouve jacket, the style was first seen in adult women's fashions of the late 1850s, taking its name from the Algerian soldiers who fouhgt alongside the French during the Crimean War (1853-1856).

Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Embroidery; Wool

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