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Cap, Dinner
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Dinner cap of black spotted net on a wire armature. Black lace edging all around with an additional row over top of head. Two rows of black satin ribbon laid in flat twists around crown forming loops over left ear and bow over the right extending into bowed end near left back. Short black ribbon tie remains on left side.
G2000.072
wear at dinner instead of white house cap
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Accessory
Historic Costume
Cap
Female
adult
Lace
netting
Black
1845
User Age: Adult Gender: Female
American
cap
dinner cap
dinner
hat
headwear
woman female
net
wire armature
lace
satin
ribbon