bodice

Dateca. 1860

Terms

Bodices
Faille
Flannel
Lace
Satin
Silk Fiber

Dimensions71.12 × 66.04 cm (28 × 26 in.)

Credit LineGift of Frances and Hooper Brooks

Object numberCOS81.107.1

DescriptionBodice for fternoon dress (COS81.107), three pieces, bodice (COS81.107.1), skirt (COS81.107.2), and belt (COS81.107.3). 3 pieces of bronze silk faille, embroidered with yellow silk in a leaf design. The bodice is fitted and boned and hooks up the front; a high neck, long sleeves with large poufs at the shoulder and tight from elbow to wrist; lower half of sleeve is covered with black lace and trimmed with black satin. There is evidence the bodice was once covered with same black lace; the long gored skirt with some fullness in back was also reworked at the waist, possibly to enlarge it (?). It is lined with flannel (?); there is a waist cincher boned and made of same fabric and trimmed with cream colored cord, probably to change the look of the dress c. 1900. Olive silk with leaf motif. 1860s bodice and skirt remade c. 1894 (perhaps 1867, braid of waist thing is a high style effect).

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