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Cape

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Doll's cape of off-white cotton flannel woven with thick vertical blue stripes and narrower broken vertical and horizontal blue stripes; trimmed with dark blue and navy silk ribbons. Made in the form of three-quarters of a circle with neck cutout. Neck edge has tightly knife-pleated navy ribbon as a ruffle, with a bow at center front. Dark blue ribbon is sewn around edges of cape and in stripes radiating out from neck, each of which ends in a bow. Metal eye remains at neck but hook is missing. Hems are sewn by machine, but ribbons are applied by hand.

2026.16.014.3

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Doll Clothes

Doll

Cape

Female

Flannel

Cotton

White

Blue

Satin

Silk

Navy

Blue

1890 - 1910

19th Century

20th Century

17-1/2 in

8-1/2 in

19-1/2 in

Diameter is measured with cape lying flat; others are when folded as for wear

Griffin, Irene Drury

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