Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1959.068.009
- Date:
- circa 1864
- Description:
- Dress. Brown silk taffeta with square dots. Black and white checked overlay stripes forming plaid. Boned and fitted bodice, opened at front, brown velvet buttons. Drop-shoulder, plain, large sleeves with white darned net lace ruffles, plain round neck, piped. Lined with brown cotton twill. Full plain skirt, unlined. The bodice is in tact, but the skirt has been remade with all cartridge pleats removed.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Velvet
Cotton - Provenance:
- From Burpee homestead attic, New London, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Susan Colgate Cleveland
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