bustle
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: Black nylon netting attached to tape worn at waist to create fullness under bustle cover. Top layer of netting comes down 10" and then turns under and reattaches to tape at waist with six pleats. The same piece of netting folds back over (3") on the inside. Under this netting, 3" up from bottom fold, 2 pieces of same netting attached under top piece of netting with a center gap of 2". Each piece is 11" deep, then folds back under to "upper" netting and then folds forward for 3.5" (making piece of netting 25.5" in length). These 2 pieces where meet top piece have 7 pleats. The next under-layer at CB attaches 4.5" up front layer and is 8.5" deep. Again piece folds under at bottom and where attaches to front piece there is a 3" over-fold towards the back; piece is 12" wide at bottom and has 5 pleats. Final under layer at CB attaches 7.0" up front layer and is 10" deep and folds over at top w/one inverted pleat. All pieces tacked with heavy black thread. Netting tacked to tie at waist for 7" with ties of 24" on R and L. Tie tacked to top layer of netting; this netting has 6 gathers. Tie consists of two strips of cotton fabric attached with decorative machine-embroidery in lavender. One strip is 1.5" wide off-white muslin; other strip is 1" wide lavender cotton. Tie is 2" wide.
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: 2015.0167.04
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0167.04
label: accession number
content: 2015.0167
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bustle
label: Object Type
content: Lower Body
label: Object Type
content: Woman
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nylon netting (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall center back: 18 in; 45.72 cm