Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1975.034.04.81
- Date:
- circa 1915
- Description:
- Dress. Yellow cotton, lawn with leno design dotted swiss, lace, and 1/4" black velvet ribbons. Bodice gathered to 1" waist band, has neck trimmed with fabric double ruffle centered by ribbon. Lace fills the neckline. Elbow length sleeves end in double ruffle with ribbon. Skirt has flounce, with double ruffle and ribbon at top of it and hemline.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton
Velvet - Dimensions:
- L-53.75 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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