Skirt
- Object Name:
- Skirt
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.695
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Skirt. Black, heavy silk and hair satin skirt, fullness at back with slight train. Trimmed with black velvet fringed braid. Lined with black cotton. Black silk taffeta petticoat. Stiff interlining at hem. Skirt has been altered at waistline.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - 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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