Silk Bed Jacket, 1918-1920
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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.
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
Bed jacket
Date Made
1918-1920
Keywords
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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