Gucci Blazer with Pink Lining and Sequined Birds.

Gucci dark navy blazer with satin lapel from the 2015 collection. Very sweet in that the lining is discreetly pink and the birds illuminate the back. Rock it casually with a white tee and jeans or dress it up in slim lined navy slacks and tank. Italian size 40. Most suited for a US size 2. Looks great slightly less fitted on a US size 0. History:My family has always had a thing for birds. Robert Ridgway was appointed by Spencer Fullerton Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to be the first full time curator of birds at the United States National Museum. During Samuel Pierpoint Langley’s tenure as Secretary of the Smithsonian, Ridgway helped Langley’s aviation research, providing calculations of wing loading and aerodynamic characteristics of soaring species. A member of the Zoological Society of London and the British Ornithologists Union, amongst others, he was part of the Harriman Expedition with John Muir. He received the Daniel Giraud Elliiot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences and was the first receiver of the William Brewster Memorial Award.Francis Willoughby was the naturalist and ornithologist, a Fellow of the Royal Society and only son of Lady Cassandra Ridgway and Sir Francis Willoughby-the eldest son of Sir Percival Willoughby. Being the only son, he married and had Lady Cassandra Willoughby who married Thomas Bridges and became the Duke and Duchess of Chandos, who endowed the Chandos Professorship of Medicine and Anatomy at St. Andrews, Scotland, when he was Chancellor. Francis Willoughby’s other son Thomas Willoughby was given the the title Baron Middleton by Queen Anne and married into the Sotheby family and Birdsall estates became his home-apparently after getting lost in the snow. Thereby this Ridgway English line became the Lord Middletons, after selling Wollaton and Middleton, the Birdsall Estates became the family seat as is it today.