Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1998.024.04
- Place of Origin:
- Paris, France
- Date:
- 1852
- Description:
- Dress. Silk taffeta; black, cream, and blue plaid. Dress includes a bodice, skirt, sleeves, and undersleeves. Bodice features: cotton twill lining; round neck line (no collar); 9 button (covered with blue knit) front closure (10 buttonholes); attached belt. Sleeve features: narrow top; bell-shape bottom; silk fringe at upper arm and lower edge; underarm protectors (commercially made -- right one marked "Kleinerts", (left one disintegrating); sewn-in lace undersleeves. Skirt features: gathered tightly at top; partially lined; hook and eye back closure; stiff netting along hem; blue cotton tape along hem. Overall length: 52", waist: 22".Typewritten note pinned to bodice (removed to accession folder), "Blue plaid silk, material brought from Paris by Dr. W. G. Perry to his wife in 1852, made up here". (unknown material from left arm protector, possibly a fabric coating, chipping and disintegrating; sample fragments in accession folder)
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Cotton - Dimensions:
- H-52 inches
- Provenance:
- Worn by Abigail Gilman Perry (1789-1860) of Exeter, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Henry B. Shepard, Jr., Anne S. Bullis, and G. Dudley Shepard
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