Gray silk; broad V-shaped neck with pleated collar of gray silk and blue satin edged with blue silk fringe. Boned darts front and back; self waistband; princess seams in back; laced closure in back with original lacing. Hook & eye closure at waistband; fragment of white net ruffle threaded with blue velvet ribbon at neckline in back. Cap sleeves with bronze silk piping at armscye and edged with band of white net and blue satin; fully lined with white glazed linen; band of white linen inside waist.
bodices
linen (material)
satin
silk (textile)
Bodice
Bodice
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.5541
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