Silk Bed Jacket, 1918-1920

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Artifact Overview

A bridal trousseau is a collection of items assembled before a woman's wedding day. It can include anything from linens for her new home to outfits for the ceremony. This silk and lace bed jacket, a waist-length robe for sitting in bed, may have been part of Virginia Palmer Bradfield's trousseau. She and Harold Lee Ward married in 1918.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Bed jacket

Date Made

1918-1920

Creators

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

2009.53.11

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. A gift in Memory of Elizabeth Palmer Ward DeVine from her children.

Material

Silk (Textile)
Lace (Needlework)

Technique

Sewing (Needleworking technique)

Color

Green
White (Color)

Inscriptions

On label in script: Lucile Ltd./ 17 WEST 36TH ST. / NEW YORK
Silk Bed Jacket, 1918-1920