The coat, cape, hat and leggings are made from a vintage wool dress from the 1870's worn by a lady named Katie Terrell. When I bought the vintage garment from a local vintage clothing shop, it had been partially ripped apart so I don't know what the original dress looked like. The owner of the vintage clothing shop had been given the history of this garment and this is what she told me about it...

The garment was possibly made for Katie by her mother. Katie was born
December 12,1856 and raised in Kankakee, Illinois. On November 27, 1883 she married Mr. Tillotson, a photographer who had a shop in Chicago for some time. Tillotson photographed well-known theater performers of the day such as Lillian Russell. Katie and her husband had no children and at some point in their marriage moved to Indianapolis, Indiana. Katie was a tall, slight woman weighing 85 pounds. The clothing in her estate was in especially excellent condition.

The coat buttons were not original to the vintage garment. They had been removed. I used buttons that I found at another vintage clothing shop. I beaded the medallion on the dress with a string of vintage beads.