Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.067
- Date:
- circa 1841
- Description:
- Dress. Changeable gold and blue silk dress, tight neck with square yoke, front and back, gathered bodice, yoke to waistband, corded drop shoulders with full sleeves shirred to shoulder band and narrow cuff. Waist buttoned down back and lined with brown cotton. Full skirt gathered and corded into waist band. Separate round collar with ruffle of self material. Glazed cotton twill lining in bodice and lighter glazed cotton in skirt.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Cotton - 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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