SOFTEST BUTTERY SUEDE IN A PALE FAWN TONE COMBINES IN A HANDSOME COSTUME COMPRISED OF SKIRT AND SLEEVELESS JERKIN OF SILK TWEED AND SUEDE JACKET FACED IN SAME TWEED. WONDERFUL FOR TRAVEL OR THE CITY-COUNTRY LIFE.Style Number: Jacket and skirt #1297X Approximate retail price: $110.00 Sleeveless jerkin #427XX Approximate retail price: $ 25.00Size Range: 8 to 18Please credit: A BONNIE CASHIN DESIGN FOR PHILIP SILLS"
Text of press release:"EXCLUSIVE TO YOU IN YOUR CITYHall of Fame and three-time Coty Award winner, Bonnie Cashin, refers toher Noh suit as the easiest, most uncontrived sort of contemporary coveringeasy wrapping, happy on the wing thing.The woolsey-tweedsey fabric woven to Bonnie’s specification is a cross-fertilization of mohair and wool, plaided in deep rich subtle color tones, suchas olive, oriole and dove, banded and belted with olive suede.Worn over a close-fitting, funnel-necked sweater for early Fall, and later under a big mantle or another Noh-cut coat, this concept becomes the versatile, timeless good look of today, and carries out Bonnie’s time-honored views on layering.From Sills & Company.No. 3Oii.l/3Oli.7 - Sizes 6 to 114. - $230.00Bonnie Cashin sweaters from The KnitteryBonnie Cashin gloves from CrescendoeAVAIL!BLE IN YOUR CITY."
Contact sheet with 12 prints of a model wearing a matching waist-length jacket and skirt in a tweed-like material. Both the skirt, which has pockets, and the jacket, which has no collar, are trimmed with a leather-like material. Under the jacket, the model wears a white hooded blouse. She also wears square-framed sunglasses, high boots, light colored gloves with heavy stitching, and a shoulder bag.
Handwritten on drawing: Inside Story --- all leather lines a checkered coat --- blanket stitching --- weat it over pantaloons (line sleeves in jersey) / [detail drawingL] inside pocket / Bonnie Cashin '66
Sketch of a figure wearing a triple breasted, above the knee length coat, vaguely military in style. Model is also wearing a funnel neck form fitting hood. Two tweed swatches attached, one deep purple the other black.