Digital Collections
Cap, Dinner
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Hand stitched dinner cap made of starched white net on a flat wire armature. Standard horseshoe crown and brim edged with embroidered net that continues down the side and back, gathered over the ears. At the ears is also a pleated frill of net under the lace frill. Soft white ribbon with corded edges forms ties, and a small bow over each ear.
G2000.112
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Accessory
Adult, Female
Historic Costume
Cap
Female
Cotton
1845 - 1855
User Age: Adult Gender: Female
American
cap
hat
headwear
female
woman
dinner cap
dinner
hand stitched
net
wire armature
horseshoe
embroidered
embroidery
frill
lace
bow
Local
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