Bodice

Object Name:

Bodice

Object ID:

1994.057.08

Place of Origin:

Hebron NH

Date:

1885-1900

Description:

Bodice, jacket-style. Black silk woven with design, lined with black linen. Cut high on hips, waist has long point both front and back. High, stiff collar that closes in back with 2 metal hooks and eyes. Jacket closes in front with 18 hooks and eyes in lining. Eleven vertical metal stays, covered with light green cotton. Trimmed with black cotton lace on end of sleeves and down either side of front panel. Bands of embroidered pink and green flowers connected by white scrolls around cuffs and down either side of front panel. Front panel is black silk gauze with small pink and green embroidered flowers. Black satin ribbon around bottom edge of left side. Stiff, thick, tan cotton cloth underarm shields stamped with ink trademark: "TRADEMARK / CA..F... [inside shield design] / 3 / EXTRA FINE", numbers on either side of shield are illegible. Hand stitched.

Material:

Textile
Silk
Linen
Cotton
Metal

Dimensions:

L-18 inches

Provenance:

All of the clothing in this accession (1994.57.1-.16) comes from the donor's family's farm in Hebron, NH. She believes that this material was worn by her grandmother and her grand aunts. Her grandmother was Elizabeth Graves Walker Keyes (1860-1943). The clothing came out of an attic with no light at the Hebron farm.

Credit Line:

Gift of Eva Geraghty

People:

Keyes, Elizabeth G. (1860-1943)