Digital Collections
Jacket, Bolero
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Partly machine-stitched and hand-stitched lady's silk Bolero or 'Zouave' jacket made of brown silk taffeta. The inside of the jacket is lined with black silk taffeta. Curved coat sleeves made of two pieces. High round neckline bound with self-taffeta in brown. Wrist openings and jacket openings and across hem to back in trimmed with a single strip of pinked edge taffeta in a brown colorway, similar to 18th-century robings.
2024.07.026
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Historic Costume
Adult, Female
Jacket
Female
Taffeta
Silk
Taffeta
Black
Brown
1860 - 1868
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