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Woman's Traveling Suit

Woman's Traveling Suit - Suit
Accession #: 3836.3
Title: Woman's Traveling Suit
Object Type: Suit
Participants:
Physical Description: Leather traveling suit comprised of jacket and skirt. Jacket is made from green leather with brown lether collar and cuffs. Leather skirt is brown to match cuffs and collar. Jacket is fitted, held closed at neck and proper left shoulder with leather covered buttons and is belted at the waist. Belt is secured with one leather covered button. A buttoned green leather strap secures each sleeve snug to wrist above the brown cuff. Gored skirt is a flared, cut in 11 sections, is secured at waist with 1 large button and 7 snaps at the back, center.
Description: Larger, faster, easy-to-drive "touring cars" and an improving network of paved roads helped promote tourism as a leisure activity. Recreational motoring became a common pastime, offering new territory for fashionable clothing. Vera Peasley Wickersham wore this elegant leather traveling suit at Mammoth Hot Springs in 1916, when she and her husband traveled from Spokane to Yellowstone Park. The couple wanted to experience the Park's stagecoach tours before the switch to motorized bus tours that year. Personal motorized vehicles were first admitted to Yellowstone in 1915, so Vera and her husband were also among the first Americans to drive their own car into the Park.
Category: Textiles
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:
Transportation (Tools & Equipment); Women (Women)
Dimensions:
waist 30 3/4" jacket
sleeve length 29 1/2" jacket
length, center back 22" jacket
chest 35" jacket
waist 27 1/2" skirt
skirt length 31" skirt
Materials/Techniques:
leather (Material)
Related Exhibits:
Credit Line: Gift of Robert and Joan Jarvis,1997

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