This item is sold from a vintage boutique in Lane County, OR.
DETAILS: You'll love wearing this vintage 1950s novelty cardigan sweater with embroidered 3-D strawberries! Styled with fully fashioned sleeves, a mark of good quality in a sweater. Shape is fairly boxy and cropped. The crew neckline, front plackets, bottom edge, cuffs, and little sideseam slits are all edged in red satin. Puffy trapunto strawberries with tiny white seed beads are scattered across the front and back of the sweater.
SIZE: Labeled 42. Measurements are taken from sideseam to sideseam with sweater laying flat, unstretched.
Bust - 40" (101.5 cm)
Shoulders - 16" (40.5 cm)
Bottom hem circumference - 36" (91.5 cm)
Length - 18.5" (47 cm)
FABRIC/COLORS: Dark blue wool knit - may be an angora blend - with red matte satin bias trim. Red trapunto strawberries scattered with tiny white glass seed beads and set off by olive green embroidered stems and leaves. The body of the sweater is lined in lightweight navy blue silky fabric.
TAGS: Elsie Tu, Hong Kong
CLOSURES: Three red satin covered small buttons with five matching red satin loops. Also a hook & eye at the neckline.
CONDITION: As mentioned above, two of the buttons are missing. No other issues noted.
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This item is sold from a vintage boutique in Lane County, OR.
Color: Blue & red
Material: Satin & wool