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Bell shaped silk dressing gown with sage green lining and cream lace netting on top. The lace depicts leaves and butterfly shaped flowers. There is a green lace ruffle along the V of the neck and on the cuffs of the sleeves. The gown slips on over the head and has a single lace tie at the collar. The sleeves are wide and about elbow length. There is no maker's label.
dressing gowns
silk (fiber)
silk (fiber)
Gown, Dressing
"70671" (Handwritten on cloth tag)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P803
8A
Unknown
35 7/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1223
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