Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.036
- Description:
- Dress. Brown and mocha taffeta dress with lace edging at sleeves. Mocha bodice, elaborately puffed tails. Standing collar, tacked down collar to cuffs. Medium brown, buttoned center panel. Shirred brown skirt, trimmed with tabs and ruffles' borders with mocha. Two ruffles at hem, trimmed with 1.25" bias band of lighter brown. Back of skirt has similar third ruffle; front and sides have tabs bound in lighter brown. Skirt body plain in back and with vertical shirring front and sides.
- Material:
- Textile
- 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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