Item

Category: Objects -> Clothing  
Donor: Maggie Soff
Location: Historic White Pine Village -> Rose Hawley Museum -> Room C  
Accession Number: 2005.159.149  
Name of Object: womens bathing suit  
Description: full length womans bathing suit.35 from shoulder to bottom of cuff on legs. V neck, high back, sleeveless. neck, sleeve edge and bottom of overshirt are trimmed in tan and brown striped material. overskirt has 2 striped strips on both sides. legs has a 3 ribbed cuff. left shoulder has 3 black buttons. knit type fabric. - Box-sportswers mens & womens - Came from basement of building at 101 E Ludington Ave(Snyders Shoes in 2005). The man who owned whatever store occupied that building in mid to late 1950s was closing up shop. donors mother asked if she could buy the bathing suit. The man gave it to her.  
History: tag inside says E Derler. donors mother was Eileen Derler, so perhaps this is a womens suit. Donor called it a mans suit.  
Year Manufactured: 1920