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
Place of Creation
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
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