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Lavender silk bed jacket with lace trim. The short boxy jacket has square cut elbow length sleeves with lace at the cuffs and along the top of the shoulders. The sleeves are open at the top seam and tie shut with four white ribbons. The jacket opens down the front with a single tie closure at the neck. The interior lining is a darker shade of lavender than the outer silk layer.
bed jackets
silk (fiber)
lace (needlework)
ribbon (material)
Jacket, Bed
"Parfait 40" (Embroidered)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P891
Unknown
44 2/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1311
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