Black knitted wool swimsuit (bathing suit) with cross strap back knitted body. Neck and sleeve hem is cover stitched to secure the raw edge of the fabric. The shoulder strap has been overlocked onto the cross strap which is looped through the centre back of the suit. The raw edge of the leg hem is overlocked and finished using a blind stitch, and a seperate crotch piece cut on the bias has been overlocked into the crotch of the swimsuit. The same overlocked method of finished has been used throughout the swimsuit.
Designer unknown
Dark blue felted wool jacket with dark grey knitted wool sleeves. Single breasted fastening with three buttons. Two pockets at front hips with pocket flaps and one pocket at left chest with slanted welted opening. Unlined. Substantial bobbling and pilling to the felted wool.
Country of Design: Japan
Country of Manufacture: Japan
Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
Shetland wool knitted waistcoat with light yellow woven cotton wide band around the neck and front opening. The front of the waistcoat has four coloured sections: top right is tan, top left cream, bottom right brown, bottom left light brown/orange. On each side, dividing each section is a horizontal zipped pocket. It has a wide knitted cream rib around the waist and narrower ribbing around each armhole at the shoulder in the same cream wool. The back is also cream knit. There are no fastenings down the front. Size M.
Country of Manufacture: Hong Kong
Apparel International
Long sleeved black pullover top or shirt with woven linen sleeves and back and knitted patterned front. It has a turn down collar of woven linen and fastens at the centre front with a short placket fastening with five small black plastic buttons (in the style of a polo shirt). The front panel of the top is made of knitted linen yarn in black with a pattern of large distorted circular shapes in brown, beige and shades of light grey. It has raglan sleeves with narrow panels at the front and back of the shoulders with a diamond pattern created by lines of overlapping pin tucks. The bottom hem and cuffs are made of knitted black linen yarn rib.
Country of Design: Italy
Country of Manufacture: Italy
Umberto Ginocchietti
Black wool knitted jumper with raglan sleeve zip fastening and hood. The black zip fastening runs from the underarm on the left side up to the neck along the raglan sleeve seam. The zip has a narrow black webbing tape pull threaded through the zip tab. Black square detachable velcro C.P. Company patch to the lower left front side near the seam.
Country of Design: Italy
Country of Manufacture: Italy
C.P. Company
White cotton sleeveless vest made of knitted jersey with a wide vertical stripe of ribbing in a pattern in the knit. The jersey is a fine knit and the neck and armholes are finished with a narrow strip of rib sewn with two lines of stitching. Knitted in the round with shoulder seams.
Crocodile
Grey polyester cotton mix short sleeved knitted jersey shirt which has a zip fastening down the centre front. It is lined in bright yellow knitted jersey. There is a pocket on the right chest with a horizontal opening that fastens with a zip. Both zips have translucent oval shaped plastic pulls. Bright yellow Mandarina Duck label.
Mandarina Duck
Black polo neck knitted wool jumper with wide white stripe around the neck and cuffs.
Karl Lagerfeld
Green wool and acrylic cardigan with turn down collar and two wide vertical yellow stripes down the front. The cardigan buttons centre front with seven gold tone and green shank buttons. The buttons have a design of two interlinked capital D's in gold on a green background. There are two welted insert pockets at the chest, the welts are ribbed with a narrow cream stripe across the top. The turn down collar is ribbed, the front panels are knitted sideways with two green vertical ridged pattern panels on either side of wide yellow stripes . Size M. Label in the back of the neck, care label in the left lower side seam.
Duffer of St George
Black lightweight wool jumper with 'La Dolce Vita' in script handwriting embroidered in cream wool. It has a ribbed neck, dropped sleeve and both the front and back are constructed of three panels. The jumper was purchased in the 1980s from Hyper Hyper, Kensington High St, London.
Country of Design: Italy
Country of Manufacture: Italy
Sandro Pestelli
