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Dressing Jacket
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Entirely hand-stitched dressing jacket made of plain white cotton. Sleeves modestly fuller at top with deep underarm gussets; narrow into cuffs with self frills and a fancy pearl button at the base; dropped, piped armscyes; one more button at the neck; deep frill at neck; body made of straight pieces like a shirt; gathered into neck but no side vents; gusset at the side of the neck and a narrow reinforcement band along the shoulder seam.
G2010.091
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Adult, Female
Historic Costume
Shirt
Female
Cotton
White
1820 - 1825
American
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