Banyan (clothing)
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A banyan is a garment worn by European men and women in the late 17th and 18th century, influenced by the Japanese kimono brought to Europe by the Dutch East India Company in the mid-17th century. "Ba
Nicholas Boylston in a brilliant green banyan and a cap, painted by John Singleton Copley, 1767.
Fitted banyan, 1750–1760
Sir Isaac Newton painted by James Thornhill, 1709–1715. Note T-shaped cut without a shoulder seam.
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Smoking jacket
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A smoking jacket is an informal men's style of lounge jacket originally intended for tobacco smoking. Designed in the 1850s, a traditional smoking jacket has a shawl collar, turn-up cuffs, and is clos
Banyan (clothing)
…Portrait of Benjamin Rush in a banyan, 1783 Smoking jacket Kaftan…
A smoking jacket in burgundy with the typical shawl collar, frog fastening and turn-up cuffs. From the 1944 film Gaslight.
James FitzGerald (1818–1896) wearing a smoking jacket in 1868.
A smoking jacket from the 1860s exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States.
A silk smoking suit with shawl collar and gold facings from 1912.