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Creamy polished cotton, square neckline with net collar and yoke; high collar with cellulose boning; two rows of featherstitching and band of lace at collar; band of lace across bodice; long sleeves with long net cuffs with button and loop closure; featherstitching at cuffs; hook and eye closure center back; four white cotton loops at front through which long cotton ties at back are drawn; bodice is short-waisted.
chemisettes
cotton (textile)
stitching
net (textile)
Chemisette
Chemisette
Red thread embroidery at right shoulder - may be an ""X"". Some of thread seems to have worn off.
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.6902
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