Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.008 a-b
- Date:
- circa 1882
- Description:
- Dress. Two-piece pink grosgrain (faille) silk dress with pink tulle embroidered and beaded. Bodice fitted and heavily boned, coming to a point in front and back. Lined with silk twill. Stand-up collar beaded and edged with pink ribbon and white net ruffling. Cap sleeves of the tulle, buttoned down front with tulle insert. Full skirt with extra fullness at back and opened down on either side for panier, overskirt in front of the embroidered tulle. Skirt lined with crinoline and pink silk taffeta. Two dust ruffles of crinoline and lace. Slight train. Lace, beads, ruching, stiffening at hem.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Skeletal - Provenance:
- Collected by the donor's sister, Marion L. Cass (1894-1963). Miss Cass developed the collection around a core of the personal possessions of her mother, Lillie M. (Wilson) Cass (1867-1951) and added objects passed down in neighboring Haverhill, NH, families. Later, while living and working in Littleton, NH, she devoted her spare time to expanding her collection, eventually representing over a century of changes in clothing and accessory styles.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Merwin P. Cass
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