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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

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