Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.469
- Date:
- circa 1910
- Description:
- Dress, girl's. White cotton organdy. Voile. Tucked yoke with lace, with self material tucked and lace edge ruffle around yoke, lace around round collar. Same ruffle on bottom of long sleeves with ribbon run through fine insertions. Three rows of lace down front of long bodice with tucking (vertical) at bottom. Full skirt gathered into narrow insertions with row of tucking and lace and three tiered ruffles at bottom. Back openings. Five buttons.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- L-27 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by the donor's sister, Marion L. Cass (1894-1963). Miss Cass developed the collection around a core of the personal possessions of her mother, Lillie M. (Wilson) Cass (1867-1951), and added objects passed down in neighboring Haverhill, NH, families. Later, while living and working in Littleton, NH, she devoted her spare time to expanding her collection, eventually representing over a century of changes in clothing and accessory styles.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Merwin P. Cass
- Subjects:
- Children's clothing and dress, Clothing and dress
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