Object: Man's jacket
Brand:
Henry Poole
(British, founded 1806)
Date: c.1935
Medium: Wool tweed
Country: England
Credit Line: Gift of The Estate of Kay Kerr Uebel
Object number: 99.115.5
DescriptionMan's brown tweed Norfolk jacket
Label Text:After the first World War, tweed became the great social leveler of casual and sports clothes for men in Great Britain. By the 1930s, tweed suits and jackets were worn for country daywear, golf, hunting and fishing, and leisure hiking. The Henry Poole tweed Norfolk jacket, with its bellows pockets, reinforced vertical straps, and belt, is a classic example of the country genre.
Exhibitions:
- Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions from the 1930s