Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1941.009.01
- Date:
- circa 1835
- Description:
- Dress. Grey silk bodice and skirt of a Quakeress. Lightweight taffeta. Bodice fitted, lightly boned, hook down front. Shirred at shoulders and lower front. Drop-shoulder sleeves flared at bottom. Lined with brown cotton twill, upper arm of sleeves padded. Long full skirt, gathered onto cotton yoke with shoulder straps. Separate belt. Hem of skirt lined with coarse cotton and padded. Label sewn into yoke of skirt, "This dress belonged to the sister of Sarah Stickney, she a Quakeress lived in Westbrook, Maine. ------ Minot - my great aunt.".
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Cotton
Skeletal - Provenance:
- Described as belonging to the sister of Sarah Stickney, a Quakeress who lived in Westbrook, Maine.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Sara Wilder Allen
- People:
- Stickney, Sarah
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