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Culture:American (possibly)
Title:bodice
Date Made:1840-1850
Type:Clothing
Materials:textile: black, pile-weave silk (velvet); black cotton piping; off-white plain-weave linen lining' brass hook and eye closures
Place Made:United States (possibly)
Accession Number:  HD F.069
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Woman's black silk velvet bodice. Back fasterning with 9 hooks (proper left) and eye closures. In good condition, the sleeves may have been shortened, and center front boning inside the bodice has been removed. The bodice, when new, would have been made with a matching skirt, which did not survive upon the bodice's accession into the museum's collection in the late 1940s.

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