bustle cover
date: label: date made
content: 1976
name: label: maker
content: Reno, Barbara G.
notes: label: Description
content: Worn by donor Alice Reno Malone as a reenactment costume in 1976 at the Arts & Industries 1876 exhibition. She was director of Education and Visitor Information at the museum at the time and decided have docents wear costumes for the exhibition. She believes it was the first, and perhaps the only, time docents wore costumes at the Smithsonian. Her mother, Barbara Gardner Reno, made the costume from a pattern selected by Claudia Kidwell, curator of the Costume Collection at the museum.
label: Description
content: Bustle cover, in oval shape at bottom, made of green cotton fabric, same fabric as companion skirt (2015.0167.02). Cover made of one piece of fabric with 3" hem. White cotton tape at top with ties to tie in front under bodice; left tie is 15.5" and right 22". Waist at center back is flat for 8.25" followed by 3 deep pleats (over sides of buttocks) covering 2" on both sides. Then 5" of waist is again flat. Where tape becomes a tie, five "stacked" pleats in space of only 5/8".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: worn
content: United States: District of Columbia
topic: label: related event
content: Bicentennial Celebration of the American Revolution
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Alice Reno Malone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0167.03
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0167.03
label: accession number
content: 2015.0167
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bustle cover
label: Object Type
content: Woman
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall center back: 30 1/2 in; 77.47 cm