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THBTwo Ice Capades Costumes Worn by Dick Button
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LiveJan 26, 2019
Premier Auction - Lots 801 - 1362 Saturday, January 26, 2019 Auction Begins | 9:00AM EDT The Skating Collection of Dick Button - British - Continental - Old Master - American - Western - Silhouettes - Firearms - Maps Deaccessioned From Colonial Williamsburg Foundation - Southern - Silver - Modern Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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- Lot Description
circa 1952-1953, black beaded matador style jacket with satin shawl collar and cuffed sleeves, interior name tag label "Ice Capades/ Costume Studio Inc./ Beverly Hills, Calif./ Name/Year/ Measurements" with ink inscription, "Dick Button/1953", matching beaded trousers with white suspenders, satin lining, jacket 18 in. length, trousers, 49 in. length; together with beaded black jacket with wide plain lapels, interior label for "Sills/Cambridge", 21 in. length
Note:I wore a white mess jacket at the 1947 World Championships in Stockholm (and then again at the 1952 Olympics in Oslo), marking a bold change in the black outfits traditionally worn by male skaters. I wore white because I knew this was the first World Championship after World War II during a time when there were helmets still on the streets of Vienna and Prague. With little money for lighting the huge outdoor Olympiastadion in Stockholm, I felt it was necessary to be seen in the dark space and so I wore the white mess jacket. The newspapers howled, “Who does he think he is, a waiter?” The following year, multiple skaters wore white mess jackets but at the 1948 Winter Olympics the background was snow and the event was in the afternoon. So I wore black. It was all a matter of what the scene set. This beaded mess jacket was made for me to wear in the Ice Capades in 1952 as a reference to that first white jacket, which had no beads and a plain, notched collar. This was also my first year in professional figure skating, which was the shortest one on record because it was during my first year at law school.
both in overall good condition, very light wearCondition
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