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This article appeared on page 135 of the Delineator September 1880 issue. The illustration was on page 136. As was common at the time, "costume" is used to describe the garment rather than a more descriptive term that would help classify the garment. The Dileneator goes in to great detail about the construction of the garment, but really never tells us just what it is. It looks to us like a warm, stlish overcoat which would make sence for the September issue. The ad copy tells us that it could be worn with a dress whivh would make it a coat. It also could be worn with just a petticoat which would make it more of a suit-styled dress. The Delineator text read:
Figure No. 3. – The coat, which is here pictured as a costume, may be worn over a little dress as a wrap for out-door wear, or over a petticoat only as a costume in itself. It has a double-breasted sack front, to which is joined a skirt-portion that also passes under the black-skirt. At the termination of the side scam a plait is laid in the top of the skirt, and its back edges, like those of the centre seam below the top of the skirt are left open. This skirt, like the pretty pocket-lap on it, is bordered with a band of velvet ribbon, and a cuff is simulated with the same and two buttons upon each coat sleeve. A deep collar, also bordered with velvet, is about the neck; and the fronts close in double-breasted style from the collar top to the skirt. The black-skirt is trimmed with velvet bands and buttons, thus completing the garment in a very pretty manner. If preferred, rows of machine-stitching may be used to complete it, in place of any other decoration. Or, the collar, pocket-laps and cuff-facings may be of one texture, and the rest of the garment of another kind. Upon page 137 two views of the garment may be seen. The model is No. 7181, price 7d. or 15 cents, and is in six sizes for children from one to six years of age. The hat is of straw, with a band of ribbon about the crown and ends of the same at the back.
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