Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.700
- Date:
- circa 1848
- Description:
- Dress. Faded lavender with tan and white lines forming a plaid silk taffeta dress. Fitted bodice, hooked and buttoned at front, trimmed with black velvet and lavender fancy ribbon with looped fringe from front to back over shoulders. Straight sleeves with same trim at front cuff, lined with heavy tan cotton twill. Straight skirt, with fullness at back. Lavender braid around bottom of skirt and dark tan polished cotton inside hem.
- 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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