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Bustle

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Bustle made of the slightly crescent shaped rolls formed of wire, held in place by cotton tapes down the CB and along the sides. Tape waistband with brass buckle. Stamped in purple ink: THE HEATH [?] [illegible small dates] Jan. 19th 1888.

G2005.181

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1880 - 1885

bustle

wire rolls

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