Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1966.019.19 a-c
- Date:
- 1893-1895
- Description:
- Dress. Two-piece gown of rose and black brocade and rose satin damask with black lace. a) Bodice boned and fitted, opened down front. Black lace over rose satin yoke with wide ruffle of lace. Top half of sleeve, full rose satin. Bottom of sleeve and bodice of the brocade. Lined with black cotton sateen. b) Long skirt of the brocade with fullness at back. Sateen also in skirt, hem tape. Wide ruffle of lace topped with shirred rose ribbon. c) High standing collar, satin and lace.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Satin - Provenance:
- From donor: "Handed down to me are some lovely old gowns and some documents which came from my grandmother [Fostina M. Dodge Barber b. 1851].... The gowns date back to the turn of the century when John McLean was governor of New Hampshire [1905-1907]. My grandfather, Henry H. Barber of Milford, was a personal friend of the governor, and I have always understood that some of these gowns were worn at important state functions of the era."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Dorothy B. Dunn
- People:
- Barber, Fostina M. (1851-1935)
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