Jacket for Rama costume made from dark blue velvet. Decorated over most of the outer surface with gold beads and sequins in quatrefoil shapes arranged in parallel diagonal rows, the lower part of the jacket left plain. Each shoulder has a solid half-crescent shape attached, decorated in the same way as the rest of jacket, each with gold and yellow tassel at the tip. Lined in blue fabric.
jacket (clothing: outerwear); theatrical clothing
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