Dress

Object Name:: Dress
Object ID:: 1967.010.62
Date:: circa 1887
Description:: Dress.Two-piece silk. Black faille bodice and skirt. Fitted bodice, boned, pointed front, squared peplum back. Trimmed with dull black beaded net with bead fringe, around neck, down front and on sleeve cuffs. Sleeves diagonally pleated at shoulder, edged with fine black lace, cuffs and neck. Lined with black twill. Long full skirt, pleated at front with refers beaded ornament. Sides draped to back. Pleated back. Black cambric lining with white back, with black pleated narrow ruffle, over black pleated crinoline and lace ruffle. Cotton sateen sleeve lining, skirt lined with glazed cotton, has heavy stiffener, has lace with organdy. Heavy rep. weave.
Material:: Textile
Silk
Skeletal
Cotton
Provenance:: Worn by Mrs. Alta L.G. Hilliard (1810-1891), who married Zimra Scates Wallingford (1816-1886) in 1840, grandmother of donor (Mrs. Samuel Hale) at her daughter's wedding in 1887, Julia Hilliard Wallingford to Charles Sumner Cartland. Ziner Scates Wallingford (1816-1886), agent of the Cocheco Manufacturing Co., West Dover, NH.
Credit Line:: Gift of Lucia C. Hale and Mary C. Lomison
People:: Wallingford, Alta L. G. (1810-1891), Cartland, Julia H. W. (1850-1894), Cartland, Charles S. (1851-1938), Hale, Lucia C. (1890-1973), Lomison, Mary C. (1892-1976)