Dress

Object Name:

Dress

Object ID:

1981.054.13

Date:

circa 1882

Description:

Dress (wrapper), woman's. White with fine cotton linen bands of two lace insertions and silk embroidery; long sleeves; lace and eyelet yoke; back opening with nine pearl buttons and three hooks (at waist); 32.5" waist. Linen and laces combined to make a banded fabric. It goes around on narrow sleeves & vertically as dress. Diamond motif eyelet with insertion makes panel down sleeves and waist band and yoke of dress. Narrow lace ruffle at neck and cuffs. Bottom 24" of skirt has a large ruffle with widely spaced insertions.

Material:

Textile
Cotton
Linen
Silk
Mother-of-Pearl

Provenance:

Donor stated that all the clothes in the accession were worn by people who were born 1864-1886.

Credit Line:

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Crandall