1920s Rare Handmade Assuit & Net Flapper Coat designer-chloe † The fabric makes it

† The fabric makes it feel like it is floating around the wearer

This dress is from that same time period and shows many of the same elements

The silver colored metal thread used and woven through it really goes it a beautiful glinting sheen and depth to the design

It flows down into a column of color into a soft ruffled bottom whose front is shorter then the back

1920s Rare Handmade Assuit & Net Flapper Coat designer-chloe † The fabric makes itThis is a spectacular, all original 1920s Assuit Flapper coat. The technique used to make this has been done for a very very long time and is still done today but not to the same degree and quality of the pieces done in the twenties. You will often see shawls from this period and the occasional dress, but to find a coat, original from the period is almost unheard of! And it is not a coat assembled from a shawl many of the "original" assuit garments