Black Bodice with Orange Chiffon

VC2001161

Black Bodice with Orange Chiffon

black bodice w/beading @neck + orange silk chiffon at sleeves and neck; black bodice w/beading @neck + orange silk chiffon at sleeves and neck-black silk faille fitted bodice; modest mutton sleeves tapered to wrist, gathered around arm holes in front; center front button closures, buttons removed; black glass beads in flower shapes around collar and bottom; mandarin collar; alterations, taken in at waist, hooks and eyes added along inner sleeve seams, elastic added inside cuffs, orange chiffon and black lace added to cuffs and collar, buttons removed

Clothing and dress

28 inches (chest), 23 inches (waist), 19 inches (center front length), 22 inches (center back length),

cotton

elastic

faille

glass

metal

polyester

silk

Physical Object

1890s

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VC2001161

Fields, Schuster, Leimkuhler 2/22/2010

black

orange

28

23

19

22

28 inches (chest), 23 inches (waist), 19 inches (center front length), 22 inches (center back length),

Blum p 223-4, Payne, Winakor and Farrel-Beck p. 522

womenswear

costume

clothing

Tops

shattering near wrists, altered

D10

Vassar College Costume Collection, Drama Department, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604

bodice