Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1949.022.09
- Date:
- circa 1873
- Description:
- Dress. Bright yellow and grey changeable taffeta gown. Bodice tucked white mousseline down front and round sleeves, trimmed with bunches of flowers (red rosebuds, orange blossoms) on sleeves, at shoulder and on front. Lightly boned and lined. Dress shields of crinoline and batting. Drop-shoulder sleeves. Full skirt with train, trimmed with five rows of mousseline, pleated and fluffed. Lined with white crinoline. Fine pleated muslin dust ruffle.
- Material:
- Textile
- Provenance:
- From the 1873 trousseau of Emma Fuller Pomeroy (Mrs. John K. Lord).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Children of Mr. and Mrs John K. Lord
- People:
- Pomeroy, Emma (1848-1930), Lord, Emma
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