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Cap, Dinner

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Hand stitched dinner cap made of starched white net on a flat wire armature. Standard horseshoe crown and brim edged with embroidered net that continues down the side and back, gathered over the ears. At the ears is also a pleated frill of net under the lace frill. Soft white ribbon with corded edges forms ties, and a small bow over each ear.

G2000.112

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Accessory

Adult, Female

Historic Costume

Cap

Female

Cotton

1845 - 1855

User Age: Adult Gender: Female

American

cap

hat

headwear

female

woman

dinner cap

dinner

hand stitched

net

wire armature

horseshoe

embroidered

embroidery

frill

lace

bow

Local

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