Overcoat
- Image
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- Created Date
- circa 1885
- Description
Coat of light brown velvet. Wide standing collar; dolman sleeves; center front closure with hook-and-eyes. Center back opening extends from center back waist to hem, in order to accommodate bustles. Coat is completely lined with off-white lambs wool and edged with same at hems. Interior ties stitched to the back waist, which are tied around the body so that the center back of the coat fits tightly.
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Costume (mode of fashion)
Clothing
Outerwear
Overcoats (outerwear)
Palmer, Bertha Honoré, 1849-1918 - Type
- physical object
- Format
- Chest: (38 in)Waist: (42 in)Hip: (56 in)Length: (61.5 in)Other: (100 in)Other: (39 in)Other: (4 in)Silk (fiber)Velvet (fabric weave)Lamb's wool
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Overcoat. circa 1885. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/452. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (circa 1885) Overcoat. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/452
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/452>.