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Dolman

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Sleeved visite (dolman) of wool jacquard with foliate and paisley (boteh) motifs, trimmed with a multicolored silk chenille fringe, lined with blue silk taffeta. Short standing collar trimmed with chenille and brown silk satin ribbon; hook and eye closure down front, as well as a clasp of two metal squares in diamond orientation, decorated with rhinestones. Dark red silk ribbon sewn to inside of back of waist to tie under closure. Blue silk-covered elastic also sewn at either end of interior of fronts, to be held around the back. Machine sewn.

2016.005.10

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Adult, Female

Outerwear

Historic Costume

Cape

Female

Wool

Silk

Red

Brown

Lord & Taylor

1883 - 1889

19th Century

Late 19th Century

Label

Back of neck

Lord & Taylor / New York

English

Shaffer, Anna

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