White cotton; broad drawstring neckline; capped sleeves; neck & sleeves trimmed with scalloped eyelet with fan motif; narrow tucks at neck & sleeves; V-yoke with horizontal bands of eyelet & tucks; 6 self-covered buttons, 7 buttonholes (1 button missing); darts; princess seams; inner cotton waistband.
corset covers
cotton (textile)
eyelets (components)
Underbodice
Cover, Corset
Cover, Corset
1. ""W"" embroider in red at right front. 2. Handwritten separate piece of paper in file-""old corset covers/of Mere Cots/not marked, but/probably of her trousseau"".
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.5164
Title Corset Cover Accession Number 1969.5165
Title Corset Cover Accession Number 1969.5166
Title Corset Cover Accession Number 1969.5167
Title Corset Cover Accession Number 1969.5168
Title Corset Cover Accession Number 1969.5169
Title Corset Cover Accession Number 1969.5170
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