Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1973.034.19
- Date:
- circa 1895
- Description:
- Dress. Brown silk taffeta floor-lenght with a semi-straight skirt witha waistline, but no waistband. Bodice has a cream-colored lace inset yoke with short standup collar of the same lace. On bodice front pleats start at the shoulder and let out at the bustline, on bodice back pleats begin at shoulder and run to waistline. The sleeves are full to the elbow where a more fitted inset of lace continues to the wrist. The dress fastens down the back.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Provenance:
- Donor's grandmother, Ellen Lawson Dodge (b.1851, d.1931) wore this dress in the Woodrow Wilson era. She lived in same house as donor (Epping, NH).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mrs.Robert H. Lewis
- People:
- Dodge, Ellen (1851-1931), Dodge, Lawson
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