Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1975.034.04.80 a-b
- Date:
- 1915-1920
- Description:
- Dress. Overdress (a) and underdress (b). Overdress is brown organdy, embroidered with red cherries, having hemstitching done in red. Hemstitching at sleeve narrow hem, and 5" deep skirt hem. Bodice has inset center panel, tucked with hem stitching and hemstitch detail around panel and neck. Cherries decorate bodice and lower skirt. Underdress is red silk twill. Oval neck, sleeveless slip. Embroidery. Starch.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton
Silk - Dimensions:
- L-45.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Clothing from the donor's family, her grandparents were Lucius Deforest Smith (1851-1903) and Estelle Malvina Blodgett (1855-1944). The Smith and Blodgett families lived in mainly in Stafford, CT in the 19th century. The donor moved to Concord c. 1928 when her father Rev. Franklin Condit Thompson, was appointed pastor of the West Congregational Church.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Alice Thompson Powell
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