White cotton bed jacket with a white lace and pink satin ribbon trim. The hip length bed jacket has a simple v-neck collar with a pink satin ribbon tie closure. The jacket buttons up the front with four small mother of pearl buttons. The fitted elbow length sleeves have lace at the cuffs and pink satin ribbon bows just above the elbow. The bed jacket is not lined. The back of the jacket has a row of thirty-two small pleats just under the rink ribbon trim. The lace and ribbon trim continues around the cuffs and the lace trim continues around the bottom hem.
bed jackets
cotton (fiber)
satin
mother of pearl
Jacket, Bed
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P905
Unknown
15 6/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1325
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