blouse
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: Bodice of moss green cotton fabric with beige dotted Swiss pattern and sprigs of flowers. Open CF with 21 decorative non-functional buttons covered in same fabric on right side; closes with 13 hidden metal hooks and eyes. Small stand-up collar covered (from bottom upward) with beige crocheted band edged with brown rick rack; then 2 rows of off-white lace trim; total of 2" wide. Long set-in sleeves ending with cuffs with same crocheted band in center with brown edging. Two pieces of lace turn upward and two turn downward making cuffs 3.25" wide. 3" deep slit in back of cuff which closes with a metal snap. Bodice and sleeves lined in beige muslin. Bodice has fitted waist and then flairs to go over hips. Each side of front is made of two pieces, one from shoulder, down center to bottom. Other piece curves from under the arm and over the breast to the bottom; seam is edged with cording in same fabric. Back made of 4 pieces with 2 center panels from shoulder to bottom and other with same arc as front piece that went over the breasts. Seams edged with cording of same fabric.
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: 2015.0167.01
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0167.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0167
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bodice
label: Object Name
content: blouse
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Blouse
label: Object Type
content: Upper Body
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall center back: 22 1/2 in; 57.15 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall sleeve inseam: 18 1/8 in; 46.0375 cm