Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1964.006.07 a-b
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Dress. Brown taffeta with satin stripe two-piece dress. Fitted bodice with close, corded neck, buttoned down front to waist, corded at bottom. Overskirt attached with bustle back, trimmed with loose yoke with band of brown taffeta and same trim around bottom. Straight sleeves with plain brown taffeta trim and net ruching. Top lined with tan muslin cotton; bottom with brown. Full skirt shirred into cotton waistband. Peplum lined with cotton. and glazed cotton for whole skirt.
- Material:
- Textile
Satin - Provenance:
- New Hampshire family.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Alexis Chapman Proctor
- People:
- Proctor, Alexis C. (1895-1979), Proctor
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