Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.039 a-b
- Date:
- 1875-1880
- Description:
- Dress. Gray wool riding costume with tailored bands narrowly bordered in green. Bodice grey brown lightweight wool flannel and in front. Sleeves gathered below elbows into L-shaped decorative band. Green trim around neck, yoke, cuffs, and sleeve bands. Skirt: front and back flat, sides hand stitched down pleats to satin-edged 3" horizontal band, understitched pleats below. New grosgrain ribbon on skirt band.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool - 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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