Black Velvet Bodice

VC2010003

Black Velvet Bodice

Fitted Black silk velvet bodice with tabbed and altered collar; green/brown cotton underlining , full-length 2-piece sleeve with gathers at shoulders, cream lace at cuffs (possible later addition), boning in cotton casing inside light blue silk lining with seams that have been clipped and bound, black silk inner waist tape with hook and eye closure, metal hook and eye closure along center front, wide scooped collar with geometric tab cutouts (later addition); small triangles of synthetic fabric (later addition); black silk, greenish-brown cotton, cream lace; black silk waist tape; synthetic patches added later; silk lining, metal boning, silk ribbon; the lace may be a later addition and may be synthetic

Clothing and dress

26.5 inches (waist),

boning

cotton

lace

metal

ribbon

silk

synthetic fiber

Physical Object

1870s

1880s

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VC2010003

??? 2010

black

lining

26.5

26.5 inches (waist),

Vogel Sisters Robes / 281 Littleton Ave. Newark NJ'

Marcia Goldman Widenor

costume

clothing

Tops

fair

Unfinished edges on collar, no apparent closure. Some velvet damage, especially at inner elbows

Deaccession Box

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

Gift of Marcia Goldman Widenor, VC Class of 1951

bodice