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Maker(s):unknown
Culture:American
Title:clown costume
Date Made:1940-1970
Type:Clothing
Materials:textile: red and yellow, parti-colored, glazed cotton; applied metallic trim; elastic
Place Made:United States
Accession Number:  HD 2021.7.8
Credit Line:Gift of Bill and Suzanne Flynt
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Clown costume consisting of a one-piece suit and matching pointed cap, owned by Henry and Helen Flynt. machine-sewn. Suit is back-fastening with a center back placket secured by four red plastic buttons. Front decorated with two orange (synthetic?) pom-poms. Sleeve cuffs, neckline, and leg openings all finished in gathers and trimmed with applied metallic trim. Tag inside the neckline of costume notes "Size 36". Hat has a black elastic band, now detached. The costume is donated in a box marked "Lucile Lockwood/ An Established Gown Shop/ Post Road Greenwich, Conn." This may have been the original retailer of the costume to the couple.

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