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Dressing Jacket

Date1820-1840

Medium(All Materials Identified by Microscope) Tabby cotton (Garment); Corded Cotton (Ruffled trim); Cotton Thread (Construction)

DimensionsLength: 32"; Width (Shoulders): 18"; Width (Bottom of Garment): 34"; Sleeve Length (with Ruffles): 23 1/4"; Sleeve Width: 8 1/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1960-712

DescriptionWhite cotton (tabby-weave) morning jacket with open front, tied only at yoke front with linen strings. Long sleeves gathered at wrists with neck and wrist double-ruffles of fine corded muslin, hemmed. Sleeve close with a button hole and flat, circular thread covered button beneath the top ruffle. Button is small metal hoop over which thread is interwoven to populate the empty center of the circle and then sewn into shirt. Yoke is self-lined and is sloped, like 1830s shoulder line. The balance unline, and the tail is hemmed. Sewn with cotton thread. Center back of garment has an 11" channel through which a 1 1/4" wide length of fabric is drawn. The bottom left corner of the center opening has the world "Grellier/1" marked in brown ink.Mark(s)Marked in brown ink at hemline: "Grellier 1"ProvenanceEx. Collection: Doris Langley Moore.