Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.389 a-b
- Date:
- circa 1898
- Description:
- Dress. Brown wool broadcloth, heavily napped, bodice and skirt. Bodice opened down the front with white satin insert trimmed with brown embroidered cutwork flowers and on standing collar, edged with black braid and lined with dark cotton muslin. Full-topped sleeves (cuffs evidently missing). Black braid trim on fitted and boned bodice. Lined with brown cotton. Full skirt, trimmed with black braid in designs around bottom. Stiffening in skirt which also has hem tape. May have been enlarged at waist. All original with shape as designed.
- 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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