Silk and rayon velvets were very popular in 1930s fashion, particularly for evening wear.  Last week I showed you a devore velvet gown in royal blue (the most fashionable colour for velvet).  This week Elise’s gift is another velvet item, but in a much more unusual colour. Isn’t the colour scrumptious?  Silk velvet in that colour is top of my fabric wish-list at the moment. The jacket is a lovely example of the Renaissance influence on 1930s fashion.  You can see it in the puffed upper sleeves, and in the padded, sculptural collar. The sleeve puffs are controlled and structured over the shoulders with rows of gathering stitches. The controlled gathers at the top of the sleeve turn into soft, unstructured gathers at the bottom of the poof, so it droops gracefully over the slim lower sleeve. Lines of gathering stitches also keep the ruching of the puffed collar As you may have guessed from the elaborate and clever cutting and shaping of the jacket, this garment, unlike the blue devore dress, probably isn’t a …