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Dressing Gown/Wrapper

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Morning wrapper of beige and brown cotton, printed in a small leaf design. Cut on princess lines, with fitted bodice buttoning up the front into high neckline finished with self frill. Dropped shoulder line and long sleeves, cut on a curve, with frill at wrist. One pocket at right hipline. Floor length skirt, fitted over hips and gored to wide hemline, finished with deep flounce.

G2025.29.011

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Historic Costume

Wrapper

Female

Cotton

1875 - 1880

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