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Price: SOLD
FAMED PHOTOGRAPHER CECIL BEATON'S PERSONAL SPORTCOAT - SHEPHARD BROS, GILLINGHAM - 1960'S VINTAGE BESPOKE SPORTCOAT - NOTABLE PROVENANCE
1960's vintage CECIL BEATON bespoke sportcoat. Brilliant design no doubt created by the gentleman himself! Camel tan summer weight wool with tan rayon lining. Late 60's inspired of Edwardian design sculpted collar & lapel, angled breast pocket (pocket convertible from flap to bound) and fitted at waist with deep vents. Three button front, four button cuffs, all original tan buttons. No exterior hip pockets for a very clean line. Deep vents to waist at side seam rather than back. Full lining with interior breast pocket. Lining includes two deep hip pockets... designed for a photographer who needs more rolls of film close at hand!
Please note that Mr. Beaton is wearing this jacket in the photograph with Coco Chanel (below). Photo was taken around this time he was designing the costumes and sets for the broadway play "COCO" staring Katherine Hepburn. Mr. Beaton had photographed Ms. Chanel for decades! Also note in the article below from "The Cut" that Mr. Beaton refers to the clothing he has tailored for him in Gillingham, Dorset as noted in the label by Shephard Bros. You will note photo of the Shephard Bros. tailor's label in the interior breast pocket, with Mr. Beaton's name written thereon.
Breast pocket label:
CECIL BEATON, Esq.
January 1968
SHEPHARD BROS.
Established 1854
Gillingham, Dorset
Approximate Measurements:
Chest - 42"
Shoulders, measured from seam to seam across back yoke - 18"
Sleeves, measured from seam to cuff edge - 24 1/2"
Center back length, measured from collar fold to hem edge - 31 3/4"
Condition:
Very good condition. Shows moth hole back below collar, some age marks, discolor at underarm in lining and small fabric split at lining below collar.
FROM "THE CUT":
Inside Cecil Beaton's Impeccable Wardrobe
By Catie L'Heureux
The British photographer Cecil Beaton won three Oscars for set and costume design: one for Gigi in 1958 and two others for My Fair Lady in 1964, the costumes of which inspired the dress code for Truman Capote's legendary Black and White Ball. Best known for his fashion and society portraits - of Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Coco Chanel, and many more - he was also a war photographer, the British royal family's unofficial court photographer, a painter, and an interior designer.
He was fashionable in a way that transcended the dandyism of the time, wearing clothes from various countries and periods, but he loved vintage clothing: double-breasted jackets, antique waistcoats, and tailored suits. "If only people knew!" he wrote in his diary. "I spend comparatively little on clothes, an occasional good suit, but most of my suits are made in Hong Kong or Gillingham, Dorset or bought on quaysides during my travels abroad. I do not own a clean pair of gloves and my shirts are mostly frayed." In fact, he had accounts with several of London's Savile Row tailors (Anderson & Sheppard, Huntsman, Fagerstrom & Hughes, and others
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