White cotton; round collar trimmed with wide eyelet ruffle, also forming jabot at center front; four small mother-of-pearl buttons center front; body gathered to yoke with lace insert; triple pleats at center back; long bell-shaped sleeves trimmed with wide eyelet ruffle.
bed jackets
cotton (textile)
embroidering
Jacket, Bed
Jacket, Bed
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.6454
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