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Jacket

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Black silk satin opera or evening jacket. Black polished jet beading across hem, collar, and sleeve ends, intermingled with black silk soutache cording in Gothic design. Sleeves and hem are trimmed with doubled-flounced machined black bobbin lace. Large sleeve openings with small sleeve cap at top. Lined in a cotton sateen fabric. Turn-down collar. CF opening and lcosure of hook sand eyes. CF has three sets of balck grosgrain ribbon with purposfully frayed edges, each set with two dangling balls of black jet beads. Machined with interior hand-finished seams.

2022.10.009

Genesee Country Village and Museum

1879 - 1881

User Age: Adult Gender: Female

Opera

Evening

Jacket

Dolman

Jet Beads

Flounce

Lace

Black

Satin

Evening

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