Girl's Dress
Clothing MakerMade by
Unknown
Dateabout 1876-1880
MediumMachine-stitched cotton with mother of pearl buttons
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (length x width across shoulders): 33 1/2 x 13in. (85.1 x 33cm)
ClassificationsCostume
Credit LineGift of Dorothy Filley Bidwell
DescriptionGirl's princess-line dress of white cotton printed with diagonal double bars in pink. The dress has a turn-down collar edged with pink bias-cut fabric. The armscyes are piped. The long, two-piece sleeves end in flared cuffs of bias-cut self-fabric, bound with the pink fabric and headed by a strip of bias-cut self-fabric edged with the pink. The bottom of the skirt is also edged with the bias-cut self-fabric flounce, like the sleeves. The center back opening extends the length of the dress and fastens with fourteen mother of pearl buttons. There is a pocket over the proper right hip. It is made of gathered self-fabric bound across the bottom and top with the strip of self-fabric edged in the pink. The top edge has a bias-cut flounce like the bottom of the skirt and sleeves. There is a double row of drawstrings within casings on each side of the back of the skirt to draw it up into a bustle. Two more pairs of tapes tie across the back to control the fullness into a pouf.
Object number1956.4.63
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