1897
Dress (2 pc)
A women’s working suit. The striped wool skirt has faded with age. Worn with the skirt is a black waist-length wool jacket with a fishtail back, and matching striped wool on the lapels. It is double-breasted with pressed tin sculpted buttons. The Leg O’Mutton sleeves taper to a fitted cuff of the same striped fabric. Fair condition: structurally sound, but small moth eaten holes in the skirt. Blouse insert and lace jabot were added for an exhibition.
Black at this time was not a very stable color, and often fume faded with exposure to light. This is the new uniform of the working/professional woman.
Provenance:
Mansfield, Adda E. (Mrs. Edwin S. Rodham) 261 Davenport Avenue, New Haven, CT. Uconn '41
Construction Label:
NA
1942C 1897.25
A women’s working suit. The striped wool skirt has faded with age. Worn with the skirt is a black waist-length wool jacket with a fishtail back, and matching striped wool on the lapels. It is double-breasted with pressed tin sculpted buttons. The Leg O’Mutton sleeves taper to a fitted cuff of the same striped fabric. Fair condition: structurally sound, but small moth eaten holes in the skirt. Blouse insert and lace jabot were added for an exhibition.
Black at this time was not a very stable color, and often fume faded with exposure to light. This is the new uniform of the working/professional woman.
Provenance:
Mansfield, Adda E. (Mrs. Edwin S. Rodham) 261 Davenport Avenue, New Haven, CT. Uconn '41
Construction Label:
NA
1942C 1897.25