Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1975.034.04.85 a-b
- Date:
- circa 1910
- Description:
- Dress. Bodice (a) and skirt (b). White cotton lawn. Bodice has dotted net, and lace edging. Long thin sleeves; top is lawn with 1" tucks, lower part ned with two 1" tucks at top. Pointed hem edged with 1" lace. Lawn body has two 1" tucks, 4" net ruffled from low neckline (front and back) edged with lace. Above lawn neckline net extends up 2". Skirt is long, with 9" bias flounce at hem. Six inch ruffle above it is joined to skirt at row of lace.T
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - 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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