Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1966.008
- Date:
- circa 1865
- Description:
- Dress, Child's - Striped lavender and pink taffeta, with low round neck. Collar trimmed with shirring; short sleeves also trimmed with shirring. Lined bodice with white cotton. Skirt gathered to waist with cording and 4 1/2 inch peplum trimmed with shirring. Two flounces with hand pinking at bottom of each. Bottom flounce attached to mauve polished cotton at top. Underskirt of flounce attached to mauve polished cotton at top. Underskirt of tan cotton. Separate cape, waist-length, standing collar. Trimmed with matching silk braid. Lined with mauve polished cotton.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Provenance:
- Dress made for Mildred Johnston, born 1854 in New Orleans. Father a commission merchant. Family moved to New Hampshire in later years. Grandmother of donor.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Frances Togus
- Subjects:
- Clothing & dress, Children's clothing & dress
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