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Bustle

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Large size bustle that fits over rump only. Coarse cotton tapes and covered spring steel hoops. Cloth panel across inner face, to be laced for control of bustle protuberance. No marks.

G98.121

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1875

User Age: Adult Gender: Female

American

Bustle

Female

Woman

Cotton

Spring steel

Northeast

North America

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