Jacket | Lee Young Hee | V&A Explore The Collections (original) (raw)
The curved sleeves and tapered jeogori (jacket) in this ensemble are typical of late 20th-century hanbok. Until recently, women wore different colour combinations of jeogori and chima (skirt) for specific occasions or to indicate the wearer’s social or marital status. Women would often wear pink jeogori as part of their engagement celebrations, while married women generally wore indigo chima. To prevent creasing, hanbok is stored folded in a clothing chest or hung on the wall over a horizontal wooden pole called hwaetdae.
Object details
| Category | Womenswear |
|---|---|
| Object type | Jacket |
| Materials and techniques | Figured silk |
| Brief description | Jacket (jeogori), part of a woman's formal outfit, figured silk, Madame Lee Young Hee's studio, Seoul, Korea, 1992. |
| Physical description | The jacket (chôgori) of dusty pink figured floral patterned silk is lined with pink gauze and has a white collar stiffener edged with a pink, purple and blue floral pattern. The collar, central back seam, front seam and cuffs are all edged with a purple thread. The tie is of purple silk. Part of a woman's formal outfit (hanbok) made at Madame Lee Young Hee's studio in Seoul, Korea in 1992. |
| Dimensions | Height: 34.3cmWidth: 48.5cmHeight: 34.3cm Width: 48.5 Notes: Width=shoulder to shoulder, arm=53.3cm |
| Credit line | Given by Madame Lee |
| Summary | The curved sleeves and tapered jeogori (jacket) in this ensemble are typical of late 20th-century hanbok. Until recently, women wore different colour combinations of jeogori and chima (skirt) for specific occasions or to indicate the wearer’s social or marital status. Women would often wear pink jeogori as part of their engagement celebrations, while married women generally wore indigo chima. To prevent creasing, hanbok is stored folded in a clothing chest or hung on the wall over a horizontal wooden pole called hwaetdae. |
| Collection | East Asia Collection |
| Accession number | FE.541:1-1992 |
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