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Bodice

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

ca. 1860

GUSN

GUSN-12930

Description

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.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bodices
linen (material)
satin
silk (textile)
Bodice
Bodice

Associated Building

Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman

Accession Number

1969.5541

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