Cream Cotton Bed Jacket

Brief Item Record

Title: Cream Cotton Bed Jacket

Description: Cream cotton bell shaped bed jacket with bell sleeves, reef whitework and eyelet embroidery.; 1. Cream cotton, one cream bone botton 2. Bell-shaped with wide sleeves 3. Scalloped v-neckline, trapezoidal panel with reef eyelet embroidery and whitework, fagoting surrounding panel and sleeve seams; one button at CF bottom of panel; bell shaped short sleeves, gathered at shoulder, scalloped edge at hem of sleeve, inward point to seam under arm at sleeve hem, curved around to smaller point at top of sleeve hem, one embroidered reef at hem of sleeve; fabric gathered under neck panel to form full bell shape; open at center front, scalloped edge which continues around hem, 4 reef embroidery details on either side of center front bottom; hem consists of 4 semicircles, semicircles meet at upward facing point at either side seam and center back; trapezoidal panel at neck with whitework and reef eyelet embroidery center back seam; fabric gathered under panel; pleat under each arm at side seam

Full Item Record

Dublin Core

Identifier

VC2010009

Title

Cream Cotton Bed Jacket

Description

Cream cotton bell shaped bed jacket with bell sleeves, reef whitework and eyelet embroidery.; 1. Cream cotton, one cream bone botton 2. Bell-shaped with wide sleeves 3. Scalloped v-neckline, trapezoidal panel with reef eyelet embroidery and whitework, fagoting surrounding panel and sleeve seams; one button at CF bottom of panel; bell shaped short sleeves, gathered at shoulder, scalloped edge at hem of sleeve, inward point to seam under arm at sleeve hem, curved around to smaller point at top of sleeve hem, one embroidered reef at hem of sleeve; fabric gathered under neck panel to form full bell shape; open at center front, scalloped edge which continues around hem, 4 reef embroidery details on either side of center front bottom; hem consists of 4 semicircles, semicircles meet at upward facing point at either side seam and center back; trapezoidal panel at neck with whitework and reef eyelet embroidery center back seam; fabric gathered under panel; pleat under each arm at side seam

Subject

Clothing and dress

Extent

40 inches (chest), 18 inches (center front length), 18 inches (center back length),

Medium

boning
cotton

Type

Physical Object

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/

Rights Holder

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Costume Item Type Metadata

Cataloguer with Date

Leksi Kolanko, Anne Silk 5/5/10

Color Main

cream

Chest

40

Center Front Length

18

Center Back Length

18

All Measurements

40 inches (chest), 18 inches (center front length), 18 inches (center back length),

Donor

Marcia Goldman Widenor

Classification

costume
clothing

Category

Underwear

Function

underwear

Condition Term

good

Condition Description

Fading, stains, black hairs; small tear on right lower back; severe discoloration on back panel; small brown stains scattered throughout.

Storage Location

D12

Work Type

nightwear

Tags

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Citation

“Cream Cotton Bed Jacket,” Vassar College Costume Collection, accessed December 5, 2023, http://vccc.vassarspaces.net/items/show/1217.