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Jacket, Spencer

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Entirely hand-stitched spencer jacket made of fine white cambric. Unlined. Large gigot sleeves. Long arms with vents at wrists fastened with a hook and loop. Medium high round neckline. Waistband that overlaps, fastens with a pair of hooks and eyes. Front fastens with small hooks and loops. The front is decorated with white cotton tamboured wavy horizontal bands applied before assembly; the inner and outer ends forming decorative loops. Wavy lines of tambouring along the shoulder and back seams.

G2006.115

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Adult, Female

Historic Costume

Jacket

Female

Cotton

1830 - 1835

American

Everyday

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