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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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5 ladies on a Porch By a River, Red Tunic

Object/Artifact

First wears a 'suit' of white coat over trained skirt, trimmed with white. Straw hat. Next wears blouse and skirt. Then one in a green, long coat with deeply tabbed hem trimmed with fringe over trained skirt. Next in blue suit with paletot top and hat. Last in simple white dress topped with a red coat with pagoda sleeves and simple pointed collar revealing white quilted lining. Trendy angular hem and panel effect with ball fringe trim.

2022.35.0483

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Peterson's Magazine

1867

Old Number

2009.019.27

Paper

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