Corset Cover

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Collection Type

Clothing and accessories

GUSN

GUSN-73550

Description

White cotton; broad drawstring neckline; capped sleeved and neck trimmed with scalloped lace and embroidered with band of leaves and stylized flowers; piped arsmcye; seven self-covered buttons; hook and eye closure at waist; princess seams at back; inner cotton waistband.

Details

Descriptive Terms

corset covers
cotton (textile)
embroidering
Underbodice
Cover, Corset
Cover, Corset

Inscription

Handwritten separate piece of paper in file - ""old corset covers/of Mere Cots/not marked, but/probably of her trousseau"".

Associated Building

Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman

Accession Number

1969.5163

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