Elegant dolman from the American department store Arnold Constable & Co, New York. The dolman is made of textured silk and decorated with chenille appliqués and silk fringes. Interior lined with black silk. In excellent condition. The decoration does not belong. Arnold Constable & Company was a department store chain in the New York City metropolitan area. At one point it was the oldest department store in America, operating for over 150 years from its founding in 1825 to its closing in 1975. At the company's peak, its flagship "Palace of Trade" in Manhattan – located at 881-887 Broadway at East 19th Street, through to 115 Fifth Avenue – was acknowledged to be the store which took the largest portion of the "carriage trade", in New York, serving the rich and elite of the city.