Dress

Object Name:

Dress

Object ID:

1963.039.054

Date:

1884-1888

Description:

Dress. Gray faille, two-piece dress, bodice heavily boned and fitted, buttoned down front with braid trim to shoulders. Stand-up collar with narrow lace around edge. Straight sleeves with braid trim. Long pleated peplum at back. Skirt pleated into waistband. Separate polished cotton lining with heavy faille hem. Pleats held with tapes at back and steel hoops sewn inside. White woven straw, long oval bonnet with fruit, white flowers, and green velveet ribbon at front and green veil. Bodice lined with striped cotton sateen. Dark cotton lining in skirt. Fiber silk.

Material:

Textile
Silk
Cotton

Provenance:

Card attached: "Worn by Mrs. Gertrude Brown Hubbard, married 1888 (aunt of Mrs. LeRoy W. Stringfellow)."

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

People:

Hubbard, Gertrude, Brown, Gertrude, Cass, Marion L. (1894-1963), Cass, Merwin P. (1904-1969)