Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1967.010.61
- Date:
- circa 1885
- Description:
- Dress. Two bodices, one skirt. (a) Fine grey silk bodice, fitted, boned, points at front and back. Collar, and vest-like front of plum satin and cut velvet, with plum taffeta center with buttons and button-holes all way down front. Narrow sleeves trimmed with same and narrow pleated ruffle wdged with lace. Lined with tan cotton. Same pleated ruffle and lace at neck. (b) Bodice wool of plum cut velvet, fitted, boned, points at front and back. Double-breasted with two rows of cut steel buttons (9 each side). Narrow turn-back collar with reverse trimmed with pleated white lace edged ruffle. Open up back to waist and pleated. Narrow sleeves, trimmed with same edging and buttons. Lined with red-striped tan cotton. (c) Plum taffeta skirt, five pleated ruffles at front below waist. Two rows pleated ruffles around bottom. Slight train, made for bustle. Lined with plum cotton twill. Lace trim and stiffener in shirt.
- Material:
- Textile
Skeletal
Silk
Velvet
Cotton
Wool
Steel - Provenance:
- Belonged to Julia H. Wallingford Cartland, mother of donor, Dover, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Lucia C. Hale and Mary C. Lomison
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