skirt
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: Long, full, unlined green cotton skirt in same fabric as 2015.0167.03. Skirt slightly longer in back to accommodate bustle. At hem, attached 4.5" deep ruffle gathered all around. Ruffle attached 4.25" up from hem of skirt. Attached 2" wide waistband. Three unpleated fabric panels attached to waistband at front. At each side and to CB opening are 2 heavily gathered fabric panels attached to waistband to incorporate the bustle. Two metal hooks and eyes on waistband to close. Inside skirt at juncture of waistband and skirt are off-white hanging loops on both sides. Inside skirt 7" from waistband on the sides towards the back is a 7/8" wide yellow-orange grosgrain ribbon attachd to skirt with safety pins.
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: 2015.0167.02
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0167.02
label: accession number
content: 2015.0167
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skirt
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall center back: 48 in; 121.92 cm