Child's Dress
Clothing MakerMade by
Unknown
Dateabout 1870-1875
MediumMachine-stitched cotton, with mother of pearl buttons
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (length x width across shoulders x hem circumference): 18 x 10 x 64in. (45.7 x 25.4 x 162.6cm)
ClassificationsCostume
Credit LineGift of Etta C. Chapman
DescriptionYoung child's dress of white cotton, with a high, round neckline edged with a whitework-embroidered ruffle under a binding. The dress, which falls straight from the shoulders, flaring to the hem, is decorated with three thirteen-inch-long bands of whitework (machine-embroidered) inserted vertically below the neckline. Alternating with the embroidered insertions are multiple rows of vertical tucks. The hem is edged with a four-inch-wide ruffle of scalloped whitework. The two-piece sleeves have cuffs of self-fabric stitched with vertical tucks and edged on each side with narrow, scalloped whitework. The dress opens for the length of the center back and fastens with ten mother of pearl buttons. The back of the dress is decorated with a strip of whitework insertion flanked by vertical tucking, on each side of the opening.
Object number1952.20.25
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