Dress
- Object Name:
- Dress
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.487
- Date:
- circa 1910
- Description:
- Dress, girl's. White embroidered voile or organdy. Embroidery, lace and machine-laced tucking down front and back of long bodice. Lace around low neck, tucking and lace from shoulder to bottom of long sleeve, lace edge. 3/4 sleeves. Wide, dropped, scalloped hamburg waistband. Skirt gathered into same, whitework embroidery at hip line and lace insertion in skirt. Three wide-tiered rows of lace with insertion of embroidery in bottom row. Five-button back opening.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- L-31 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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