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Dress
American
About 1890
Object Place: America
Medium/Technique
Silk satin figured weave with jet-beaded trimming, silk satin lining, boning, and metal hook and eye closures
Dimensions
68 x 63 cm (26 3/4 x 24 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift in memory of Gertrude Bickford Hutchings by her cousins
Accession Number53.539a-b
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CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionDress in two parts; black figured satin with all-over design of highly conventionalized scrolling leaves with pendent blossoms; fitted bodice (a) with folds of self material in front; hooked down center front; high, standing collar; long modified leg of mutton sleeves; jet-beaded trimming bands on collar, lower edge of sleeves, bands down center front and around bottom edge of bodice; (b) skirt with slight flar in front with most of fullness gathered to center back; matching self material bow below the collar.
ProvenanceThrough Mrs. Helen R. Moore