Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1971.009.03
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Dress;black voile cotton with white dots and lawn embroidered black dots. Resist printed. Long, opened 3/4 down front, opening trimmed with black braid on net. Top tucked in center back and from shoulders in front. Cotton sateen bodice lining. Lace trim. Tucks stitched to waist at back and allowing fullness to skirt. Stiffening on skirt. Three rows of ruffles at hem. Waist with fitted lining and boned. Long sleeves tucked from shoulder to wristband. Same black braid on one cuff. Sleeves lined.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Provenance:
- From the family of donor, who lived in Weare, NH, in 1863 and later in Riverdale, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Col. and Mrs W. L. Simons
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