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Dress

Object Name:
Dress
Object ID:
1967.027.25
Date:
1840-1845
Description:
Dress. Cotton with woven plaid muslin in stripes of yellow, brown, and red. Fashioned with full skirt attached under pointed, boned bodice with vertical front shirring. Sleeves have bands of shirring at shoulder and wrist, narrow cuffs with ruffled borders. Hook and eye closing at cuffs and bodice back. Probably made over from earlier style. Cotton muslin bodice lining, skirt lined at hem.
Material:
Textile
Cotton
Provenance:
From Woodbury family, Bedford, NH.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Charlotte E. Woodbury
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