Dinner jacket

Ca. Digiacomo

1940 · wool · Costume Institute

The custom-made, semi-formal jacket seen here was made in 1940. The fine hand-stitching along the edges of the lapels is indicative of fine custom work. The exaggerated peaked lapels would become popular again in 1970s.

Artist

Ca. Digiacomo

Date

1940

Medium

wool

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Stanley Mortimer, 1974