The introduction of the jacket probably influenced the popularity of Chintz,a colourful cotton fabric decorated with exotic flower patterns and with a glazed finish, in the Netherlands. This originally hand-painted and polished cotton came in the seventeenth century from India to Europa. Later, printing technics came in use to imitate the designs and to satisfy increasing demands. The jacket, also known as a casaque, kasakijntje or caraco was worn in combination with a muslin fichu, sometimes with very fine embroidery and combined with a silk, quilted or otherwise embellished skirt in a contrasting colour. It is one of the only historical national costumes which was worn by women from every level of society during the Dutch Republic. Although chintz jackets were worn as day and formal wear by domestic servants, fisherwomen and richer farmer’s wives, the upper classes only wore them as a negligee (indoor dress). When lighter and brighter fabrics came into fashion at the end of the eighteenth century, an end came to the chintz rage. At the same time the jacket remained fashionable and cherished within the Frisian and Zaanse regional costumes.
Title
Caraco
Artist
Dating
ca. 1780
Material and technique
Object number
8920
Object type
Acquisition
schenking 1942
Dimensions
lengte 65 cm
taillewijdte 70 cm
mouwlengte 22 cm
hoogte 75 cm
breedte 77 cm
diepte 3 cm
Documentation
- "Zoo menig japon als cultuurhistorisch document". De geschiedenis van de kostuumafdeling van het Centraal Museum Utrecht, Hanneke Adriaans, afb. nr. 10
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- De costuumverzameling in het Centraal Museum 1750-1930 : gids en catalogus (Utrecht, 1947), cat. nr. 27, pp. 12, 56, afb. fotomap nr. 2
- La Leggenda del filo d'oro, Le vie della seta (1952), p. 99, afb. 29
- Mode en kostuums, Hanneke Adriaans, Saskia Kuus (Utrecht, 1996), p. 200, cat. nr. 12, met afb.
- Uit de Mode : Collectie van het Centraal Museum, Ninke Bloemberg, Anne-Karlijn van Kasteren, Hanneke Adriaans ... [et al.] (Utrecht, 2017), p. 82, afb. in kleur p. 83
Exhibitions
- La Leggenda del filo d'oro, Palazzo Grassi, Venetië, 1952
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