Boy's suit

Clothes for Children

Inventory number
2022.6.2.2ab.CC.SU.C1885.FR
Description
Boy's velvet suit consists of a coat and underdress (made of ivory silk dress trimmed with lace ribbons on the bottom and stitched on the top velvet skirt made of the same fabric as the main gown with trimmed pleated crimson ribbon on the edge). Coat with crimson cuffs and triangle details on the bottom sides decorated with grosgrain ribbons in the middle, fastens at the front with 17 round buttons.
Materials
Velvet
Silk
Grosgrain ribbons
Origin
circa 1885 France