Suit

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Suit

Entry/Object ID

CW 143

Description

Cream white mohair suit, self stripe. Skirt elaborately pleated with rows of small white silk buttons, outlining seams to break pleats. Eton jacket trimmed with 1/2-inch bands of white taffeta stitched on. Square collar of silk trimmed with embroidered insertion and blue braid. Collar front of jacket and deep cuffs like collar outlined with full lace. Full ¾ length sleeves.

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Suit

Clothing Sex

Female

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1905

Time Period

20th Century

Provenance

Notes

Donor: Mr. Fairchild, 1953.