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Woman's Bicycling Suit (Bodice and Bifurcated Skirt)circa 1898

Not on view
Two-piece women's outfit on a dress form: slate blue jacket with cream cord scrollwork and brass buttons over a pale tan linen skirt with striped hem border

Unknown, Woman's Bicycling Suit (Bodice and Bifurcated Skirt), circa 1898, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Bullock's, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Woman's Bicycling Suit (Bodice and Bifurcated Skirt)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1898
Medium
Bodice: wool twill and wool plain weave, fulled, with cotton braid and metal buttons; Skirt: linen plain weave and linen passementerie
Dimensions
Center back length (Jacket): 19 3/8 in. (49.21 cm) Center back length (Skirt): 28 in. (71.12 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Bullock's
Accession Number
M.74.24.27a-c
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography

  • Maeder, Edward; Evelyn Ackerman. Dressed for the Country: 1860-1900. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.

  • Blanco F., José and Patricia Hunt-Hurst, eds. Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, vol. 2, The Federal Era Through the 19th Century. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016.